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

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 ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the ... the Civil War was how to re ...

Chervinsky When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War Lorraine Boissoneault The biggest show in Washington 150 years ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew ... of War, Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton was the only member of Johnson's ...