T he U.S. House of Representatives voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on February 24, 1868. Nine of those articles cited Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

In my strolls around town with some of my friends I had some difficulty in finding the home pointed out by tradition as being the birthplace and home of the boyhood of President Andrew Johnson.

Most of the 45 men who have served as president were e indifferent to the needs of Black folks or actively opposed to ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South ...

Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

Trump’s illegal assertion of executive power echoes the attempt 158 years ago by President Andrew Johnson to fire Secretary of War Edward Stanton. Johnson, of course, was the cantankerous ...

President Trump signals plans to weaken the Department of Education, throwing into question the fate of financial aid and funding for underserved students.

In 1867 President Andrew Johnson thought about trying to buy Greenland. So did President William Taft in 1910. During the Second World War the US occupied Greenland to prevent anyone else from ...