President Andrew Johnson, who is best known for being the first president to be impeached, vetoed protectionist legislation ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, fervently wanted to declare victory and move on and he prevailed in that ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

Historians rated the US presidents on leadership qualities. The survey did not include Joe Biden since he was still in office ...

But for the quibblers, perhaps it should be highlighted that in August of 1866 President Andrew Johnson simply declared “the insurrection is at an end.” Admitting there is ambiguity in marking exactly ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, on Tuesday, calling him a “good man” a day ...

As historians of the period after the Civil War, we know that for Johnson and Grant, that’s not what happened. Further, as a Southerner, he wanted to maintain the social conventions and economic ...

In 2016 a woman who went by the pseudonyms Katie Johnson and Jane Doe in legal filings ... saying her friend had had sex with Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard Branson on multiple occasions.