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People Archives:Andrew Jackson

Painting of the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

A Creek War Baptism of Fire for Future Icons

by Peter Cozzens1/30/20241/23/2024

David Crockett, Sam Houston learned how to fight during the brutal, early U.S. clashes with the Red Stick Indians.

Painting of the United States Senate, a.d. 1850, pub. C. 1855 colour lithograph. Compromise of Clay; Henry Clay 1777 - 1852

America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again

by Glenn W. LaFantasie1/2/20241/3/2024
This cartoon pokes fun at Martin Van Buren’s inability to build a Free Soil Party coalition during the 1848 presidential run.

Leap Back on the Political Merry-Go-Round

by Richard Brookhiser11/28/20233/31/2024

Book review: A Brutal Reckoning / Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

by Rick Beard11/8/20234/29/2024
Painting of the battle of Lundy’s Lane, Canada, 1814.

In 1814 the British Stymied an American Attempt to Invade Canada. They Were Stopped at Lundy’s Lane.

by William John Shepherd8/25/20238/25/2023
Painting, The Mount House, by William Sidney Mount.

The Racially Diverse Paintings of a 19th-Century American Artist

by Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller6/9/20236/9/2023
Painting of Rising political star William Crawford’s life was upended when medicine he took for a skin ailment brought on a debilitating stroke.

John Fetterman Isn’t the First Ill Politician to Serve. Here Are Examples from History

by Richard Brookhiser3/14/20233/14/2023
Photo of Former Secretary of State George Marshall, left, with Columbia University president Dwight Eisenhower in the early 1950s

A Rundown of American Presidential Tantrums

by Richard Brookhiser12/27/20222/26/2024
What It Took To Win book cover and art. As the Democrats convened in Chicago Stadium on June 28, 1932, delegates and guests milled on the concourse.

Book Review: What It Took to Win / A History of the Democratic Party

by Clayton Trutor11/1/20224/29/2024
The removal of the Cherokee Native Americans to the West in 1838. Oil on canvas, 1942, by Robert Lindneux.

The Supreme Court Case That Decided Indian Sovereignty

by Daniel B. Moskowitz9/6/20229/6/2022

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