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

Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote... Died: July 31, 1875. The issue that vexed the nation following the Civil War was how to re-form the Union. Northern Republicans insisted that the ...

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction of the Union while addressing issues such as African-American civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of warlord-turned-politician Prince Johnson - a notorious face of the country's brutal civil wars, and who died without ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.

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 ...