A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act on this day in 1866, overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson. The law’s chief thrust was to offer protection to slaves ...

But was Andrew Johnson really ... for white men,” he wrote in 1866. In the end, the Radical Republicans won control over Reconstruction and Johnson became a pariah. Johnson vetoed the Civil ...

The president was Andrew Johnson, who in 1866 was already facing impeachment threats just a year after succeeding assassinated Republican President Abraham Lincoln. So Johnson sought to rally his ...

On this day in 1866, Congress overrode a veto by President Andrew Johnson to renew the charter of the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau.

Brenda Wineapple’s riveting new account of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson contains ... limiting the freedom of former slaves. In 1866, Johnson moved aggressively to block the ...

Johnson kept Lincoln's secretary of state, William H. Seward. Seward was mocked for arranging to purchase Alaska from Russia in 1866 ("Seward's Folly") but his decision has since been reappraised.