On January 29, 1834, President Andrew Jackson orders the U.S. military to suppress workers attacking each other over scarce jobs along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. This is the first.
This is the grave of "Uncle" Alfred. Evidently born in or around 1803, Alfred was the name of a slave who was the son of Andrew Jackson's enslaved cook. He.
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson. What to say about Jackson that hasn't been said? Not much. He's had a lot of ink spilled on him and you all.
This is the grave of John Eaton and Peggy O'Neill Eaton. Born in 1790 near Scotland Neck, North Carolina, to a landowning and political family, the Eatons had landholdings in.
Jim Webb is a great Democrat. If it is the racist southern wing of the Democratic Party in 1957. He goes full Schlesinger in his outraged defense of Old Hickory..
Reading the discussions of Andrew Jackson over the last couple of days has been really interesting to me. With both Dylan Matthews and Scott, I agree on all the merits.
It's true enough as Adele Stan states that Andrew Jackson is actually the prototypical white American as opposed to some sort of freak from the past that not only we.
David Greenberg of course!* Author of noted redbaiting hack job against Howard Zinn and many other hackeries over the years, Greenberg comes to the rescue of the very mean people.
