-Everything you need to know about President Andrew Jackson in under five minutes:
-In case you want to invite Andrew Jackson to your dinner party, Classique Productions has you covered.
-Of all the names of all the presidents’ homes, The Hermitage rules them all. When you’re done there, head on over to Andrew Jackson State Park down in South Carolina.
-If you’re a teacher looking to teach your students to:
• practice Internet and library research skills
• hone public-speaking and presentation skills
• appreciate the depth of interesting information available about historical figures
Have I got the lesson plan for you! And if you’re extremely ambitious, try out this 35-page diatribe mock trial lesson plan, prosecuting Jackson over the Trail of Tears.
-Who knew that a portrait of our seventh president could be so intriguing and, for that matter, worth an entire article.
-Was Andrew Jackson poisoned? No, it turns out that if you carry a lead bullet in your body for a number of years, you may develop some level of lead poisoning. Let’s thank the purveyors of this study for spending all the time and money to figure that one out.
-In an interview on NPR, Michael Friedman discusses his broadway hit, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Additionally, GQ’s interview of the lead cast-member, Benjamin Walker, is wildly entertaining:
[Jackson] was simultaneously responsible for expanding the country further than anyone ever had, and also responsible for the genocide of a race of people. We can’t decide if he’s a great president or a homicidal maniac. It’s the audience’s job to judge him. We just tell his story.
-The body of the man that Jackson killed in an 1806 duel has now been found.
-He is one of the few presidents who has been the subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning book.
-Chris White determines the answer to the most pressing question of our day: who would win a fight to the death between all the presidents.
-Andrew Jackson’s turn as a comic book character, is about as awesome as it sounds.
Previous Presidents:
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
