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 ...

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 ...

Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists turns this vision on its head. As one of the first acts of his presidency, it certifies his view that we are two nations, not one. Instead of restoring ...

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 ...

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

nine became President after the existing President either died or resigned, while five of those (John Adams, Martin Van Buren ...

Last month, President Joe Biden sat down with MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas for an interview. Meiselas asked the outgoing president whether he would be attending President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a ...

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 ...