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EXHIBITION
Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans
November 5, 2014-March 29, 2015
Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street
Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 8.171.-4:30 p.m., Sunday, 10:30 8.111.-4:30 p.m.
Free
For many, Andrew Jackson is a figure from a remote past, a portrait on 2 S20 bill, a statue in an old city square, or a lyric in a Johnny Horton song. Yet Jack-*o v= - the 19th-century equivalent of a rock star, one of our country’s most famous heroes. • ■ as one of its most polarizing figures. A new exhibition, Andrew Jackson: Hero ofXru OtUa't-. will coincide with the 200th anniversary of Jackson’s improbable victory over the British army below New Orleans—an outcome that effectively ended the War of 1812, ensured American control of the Mississippi River and western territories, and put Jackson on the road to the White House.
The show will invite visitors to follow the rise of an American icon, from his humble beginnings to immortality as a war hero and president. In addition to selections from The Collection’s considerable holdings of original War of 1812 and Andrew Jackson materials, the exhibition will feature rare, one-of-a-kind objects—some that belonged to Jackson himself—on loan from the Hermitage, the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, and other institutions.
Though he had served in the US Senate in the late 1790s, Jackson was a virtual unknown outside of Tennessee until he began appearing in newspaper accounts of the Creek War of 1813—14. In the wake of his victory over a large force of hostile Creek warriors at Horseshoe Bend, the frontier-militia general received a commission in the
2 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly