she and jackson married in 1791 and later adopted a son, andrew jackson junior.hortly after their wedding, they learned that her divorce had not been finalized. despite their legal remarriage in 1794, the couple he was greatly ostracized in social circles in the years that followed. in fact, the scandal surrounding their marriage provided much fodder for jackson's political opponents during his first presidential campaign. when his wife died shortly before his inauguration on december 28, 1828, jackson blamed them for her untimely death. he saw the first white house with running water, the first president to be censured following the bank of united states controversy, and the first presidential assassination attempt. his vice presidents were john calhoun and after a falling out with him, martin van buren. after the presidency, jackson retired to the hermitage, his tennessee estate where he attempted to climb out of debt as he continued to keep his eye on politics. he died on june 8, 1845 at the age of 78. his have servants were sad at that. do not cry, be good ch

and then along comes andrew jackson. mr. trump's hero, and andrew jackson has this idea that we are defined by our race, that ultimately this is this is a country for white europeans. and this country belongs to white europeans. and these other people, these so-called native american tribes, these african-americans who are enslaved, they're just sort of like in the way of our progress. and we need to just sort of push them aside. this mexicans, they don't really belong here. they may have lived this territory before, but they really don't belong in this country. and and that idea begins to take hold during the jack sonia era. and it's against that idea that we are a white christian nation, that webster is pushing, and he challenges that idea by insisting that it's the constitution that made us americans and it made all of us americans, regardless of our race or our faith or our region of the country, our ethnicity doesn't define us. we are defined by the constitution itself as americans. and he's not necessarily the originat

which president andrew jackson was persuaded to lay the cornerstone. but it was really kind of a luxury home development on the potomac next to what today is the 14th street bridge. but it was it pretty much failed in the 1830s and forties and became kind of a high crime area in latter 19th century. cost us all. so he takes a famous trip. more on the monument building in 1845. got lots of coverage and newspapers all over the northeast where he up to bunker hill and lexington and concord and he was he's a little upset that he didn't think that bunker hill was being sufficiently preserved. in middle age in the thirties they starting to plan the washington monument and though he didn't an official role in that he course with a lot of the people who were planning it and he even offered his son at arlington house as a to be the washington monument. and it took 20 years. you know, you all remember that the monument was begun. i think it's 1848. it's begun. and then halts during the civil war and it's only half built. but custer's has a donated a stone with h

he liked military heroes such as andrew jackson and zachary taylor. but he was tiresome, and he had critics among the jeffersonians who but he weighed in as an essayist and orator on the top tier issues of the first half of the 19th century, which included domestic economic independence, farming, innovation, collapse of his beloved federalist party. the advent of the steamship and the railroad. protection of the rights of irish catholic immigrants. and the first federal benefits for war veterans. he greeted, advise and entertained countless influential guests at arlington house. now, when the u.s. declared war on england in 1812, he opposed that, as did the federalists in general. but by the time 1814 rolled around, the british were attacking washington. custis declared himself ready to fight and he participated in the battle of bladensburg, suburban maryland. and he accepted no, no pay. his farm innovations were acknowledged nationally in the field. and today the u.s. agriculture department on its website has a little notation about custer's contribu

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i want to welcome you to andrew jackson hermitage to our first history uncorked event of the season. i hasten to note that tonight's program is being by c-span, who will air it later this month. therefore this fall. therefore, please make sure your cell phones are silenced so we don't interrupt. dr. talk and you you leave memorial sized on c-span. but this evening are proud to have dr. timothy boyd to speak to us on the topic. consumes tremendous amounts of our thought, energy and. the title of his talk is we are what we eat food and national identity in american history eating and drinking are among the most mundane yet essential activities that humans undertake. i myself think of food constantly as well as being vital to sustaining life. the types of food we consume, how we prepare it and the social settings which we enjoy it are more just functional. they speak the social, cultural and political beliefs of the times. dr. boyd will use examples from the jacksonian era and from other periods american history to highlight ways in which the foods that americans served and have and ref

he was nicknamed the younger hickory because the support of andrew jackson. the napoleon of the stump because of his short stature. his hair was straight and combed back off his face. he was sent to of a lactic charisma and a sense of -- set to have a lacked charisma and a sense of humor. guests would walk to the east room and do not park up a passage. as moderate consumption of alcohol prompt and an enemy. he drank too much water. he married the intelligence and refined sarah childress when he was 28 and she was 20. she was said to have enjoyed her social duties and even more so when he was elected president. she banded dancing and hard liquor at official white house functions. she was the first to host the annual thanksgiving dinner. she offered her has advice on public policy and highlighted newspaper articles for him to read. his inauguration took place in it in 45. the -- 1845 appeared the catchphrase most expended with hope is manifest destiny. the united states gained over one half million square miles of new territory. polk was in a continual state of

but when you compare him to andrew jackson and andrew johnson, you say trump isn't actually sui generishe world has never seen anyone like donald inject yourself with disinfectant -- trump. >> you are right. when you look back at the presidents in the 1950s, which i have to say before i started a book i knew very little about. one of the things i wanted to do the book, to bring some of these characters from the early presidencies to life, not just for the world audience, but also american audiences. andrew jackson was in the trump of his day. he was seen as a populist, an extremist in some ways. he was the ultimate disruptor. i think that's how trump came into politics. i remember interviewing donald trump back in 2012. it was a perfectly normal interview. he had not got into the race, obviously, at that point, but he was thinking about it. it was just an interview, and interviewer interviewing a presidential aspirant. he was funny, humorous, he was engaging company. i don't know what happened in the four years between 2012 to 2016 when he became this weird character. but we constantly

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he resigned from the senate in february 1836 rather than vote to expunge the censure of andrew jackson. the whig party led by henry clay in the senate had passed a resolution of censure that took president jackson to task for moving the bank deposits that inaugurated the bank more in jackson's second term. when the democrats regained control of congress they passed what was known as the expunging resolution. but they aim to do was expunge the censure from the senate journal to literally get it out of the record of the senate journal. tyler was instructed to vote for the expunging resolution by the virginia legislature. he refused, he resigned in february 1836 out of principal. but he returned to politics yet again a year end a half later. he was elected to the virginia legislature for the third time. again we see a pattern of looking at a way to try to continue his political career by using the legislature as a springboard. he got himself nominated as vice president at the whigs at their convention their national convention they nominated william henry harrison. then of course we defea

what is guilty of is allowing brother jackson, andrew jackson, butler to run amok a little bit out of and his he loved his brother. he probably turned a blind eye. he was very loyal to jackson. and i think that jackson was involved in some very questionable stuff. but try you might and butler said this throughout his postwar life. i been investigated unlike some people who say that it's really true i have been invested hated more than anybody else in the history. and he had and he said it would have been found. it would have been found. and all of my accounts are public and everything is public. but it's true. and when the treasury department agents and others finally said, you really need to get jackson out of new orleans because it's sullying, you know, people's impression of you. he sent him away. so thank you. i had steering from western virginia. yes, i remember you from our old well on the assassination circuit. first time we met was at the lincoln forum on the lincoln. exactly. and you spoke on joseph holt? yes. another maligned figure. yes, indeed. yeah, you have. yes. lived a

it was reminiscent of andrew jackson and other populists, who very intensely used symbols like that tol to his voters and it was a truly effective. >> joe biden came into office and lifted the covid restrictions to have only one steak dinner, a comments on his relationship with food? >> joe is a spaghetti and ice cream guy, he is not a big gourmand, but his wife jelly is a very accomplished cook. she grew up with italian grandparents would like to make homemade pastas, and homemade bread and meat balls and she took up the mantle of cookery. and kamala harris is a break up -- accomplished cook and has some cooking videos you can see online, where she is brining a turkey, or she is schooling senator warner on ticket -- making a tuna melt, or is cooking with mindy kaling. her interests are very genuine too. again, this is the role of the first lady, if there is a blending of personal and political when it comes to food. >> on the note, you close with some observations about the pole of the president at the first family as eaters in chief. what are your thoughts about that, and what opport

the next 28 were black of the war of 1812, who had fought with andrew jackson at the battle of new orleans. and then there's roughly a thousand signatures to follow. and they make argument that they are wealthy, freeborn, taxpaying, educated men, and they should have the right to vote. march 4th, 1864. they bring petition to lincoln and. they sit down together in lincoln's office and have a conversation about it. and there were white in the in the room who were horrified that lincoln was having a conversation with these two men of color. and lincoln essentially says to them, you should have the right to vote. i don't have any over it. but if you can come with a justification that relates to winning the war and saving the union, then i can support it. and they go away and they meet with charles and they they might have met with chase to i don't recall. and on march 10th, they write a new petition where they, they all black men should have the right to vote, whether born free or not and this is where they make the argument that there is a large loyal population in the south. and it's and i c

and andrew, postmaster general, with andrew jackson's tacit approval basically says southern postmasters can burn, can interdict, can prevent any of these anti slavery materials from circulating. and it occurred to me the other day this is the equivalent of the russian government. so shutting down internet sites that publish any other thing other than the official line on the war in ukraine. you know, it it really is almost an identical kind of notion, right, that these are dangerous thoughts that we cannot allow to be spread. and they were dangerous. they threatened one of the most important economic and political in america, the slave power, slave power over the economy, over politics. and once william j. threw in with this movement there no turning back. and in doing so, this conservative property owning episcopalian, pro temperance, pro bible and tract distribution, evangelical approach to sort of ensuring the sort of moral fabric the country survive as it move westward. as the economy became more intensely. in other words, a man, a very conservative, tastes embraced a radical, radic

you can see that with andrew jackson, whether it was after the civil war, whether or not it was in the 1960's, we have had these not -- periods. it is finding a leader who projects calm over that sort of situation. >> ok. >> i think he more or less covered. >> i think some of the supreme court rulings on the first amendment and the role of money in politics, it is drawing out the policy and it becomes more about the message or the as pictured, the special interest on the candidate. any congressional race, particularly georgia, it does not matter who you run, all of these interest groups and all of this money is being spent on ads and you cannot get away from it in georgia. i think that we are going to go until the citizens and figure out that it is not good and we need to find the correct truth. wait are going to be in -- we i want to be in the dark period for a while. >> if you go to the appendix of the report there is a really amazing section on this protest happening on the rnc fundraising arm and the use of misinformation and disinformation. low level employees who are adamant this

it's the life and times of andrew jackson or ronald reagan. but even when i write about other subjects, even when i write about a period or a subject, it always focuses on, it hinges on these individuals. because that's the way i just tend to interpret history. and that's that's what draws me to history. and i think it's one of the reasons that biography as a genre is more popular than history as a genre. some of you will remember your history class from high school where something less than excitement, history classes in high school have a bad reputation. and i speak as somebody who used teach history in high school. i still teach history in college and perhaps i've used this line in this auditorium and perhaps some of you will remember it, although one of the groups that i speak to, the university of texas, where i teach a very active continuing education program, and this for retired folks who now have time on their hands and want to come and just hear something about history. and i preface something that i was going to say, but i don't rem

so morgan al smith is now new corps commander joseph andrew jackson, lt was the brigade commander. he's the new division commander. well, as has jones, the 53rd ohio, who doesn't even know this is a regimental that now is control of the brigade. all that happened within 20 minutes of the attack. these men have not used to being able to handle these new duties that quickly. and because of that, since the first time you're going to see this corps routed. and here's hood with a new battle plan. he's not routing the force northward, but he can destroy, completely destroy army. the tennessee by sending all these troops eastward. all right. and the moment that's above the august, the troops herd house near the georgia railroad and you see digresses is for 20 pounder parrots and there's six more guns of the battery. a battery of ten pounder parts. all those guns are captured. here's an image from the cyclorama fire showing the troop herd house and showing the confederates around those guns. all right. those four guns, rarely in a contest of this size with almost 60,000 men engaged as one