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Andrew Jackson may be giving way to Harriet Tubman on the face of the $20 bill, but the seventh president’s image is on the ascent in the modern White House.
The Treasury Department this past week announced Andrew Jackson's face on the front of the $20 bill will be replaced by that of escaped slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Jackson, Miss., the state capital named after Andrew Jackson, voted on Tuesday to remove the former president’s statue from the grounds of City Hall. The 5-to-1 vote by the city council to ...
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will be the new face of the $20 bill, while Jackson, who owned slaves, will move to the back. The two opposing figures represents how our democracy is supposed to work.
Understanding today’s powerful presidency means going back to Jackson’s White House reign.
If Donald Trump channels any vision of Andrew Jackson, it’s the latter one, from his anti-immigration message rooted in the explicit view that undocumented immigrants lack legitimate claims on ...
U.S. Park Police keeps protesters away after they attempted to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in Washington, ...
Opinion: The assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump is not unprecedented. Andrew Jackson was nearly murdered in the 1830s.
In 2020, the Jackson City Council voted to remove the Andrew Jackson statue in a 5-1 vote. Now, the statue is finally headed elsewhere.
For Andrew Jackson, the threat had become too close for comfort when, in the spring of 1812, just a hundred miles from his home, a marauding band of Creeks killed six settlers and took a woman ...
Andrew Jackson utilized state and federally-sponsored violence to forcibly displace indigenous groups from their land," Abaraca said in a press release announcing the resolution.The Indian Removal ...
"I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War." This is in the vein of imagining various alternate histories of the United States.