Most of the 45 men who have served as president were e indifferent to the needs of Black folks or actively opposed to ...

The 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 ...

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 clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

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 ...

Harry Truman granted 2,044 pardons and Calvin Coolidge issued 1,691. Among the presidents before 1900, Andrew Johnson granted 7,654 clemencies, placing him among the highest in presidential history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...