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 ...
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 ...
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
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 ...
Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...
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 ...
A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination Vanessa Armstrong A new podcast series explores ...
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