Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists turns this vision on its head. As one of the first acts of his presidency, it ...

To a degree possibly unprecedented in the country’s nearly 250 years, President Trump is barreling through the executive ...

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 ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

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

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 ...

Trump’s illegal assertion of executive power echoes the attempt 158 years ago by President Andrew Johnson to fire Secretary of War Edward Stanton. Johnson, of course, was the cantankerous ...

In commemoration of Presidents’ Day, the focus will again be on President Andrew Johnson. William W. Stringfield (1837-1923) ...

Alaska once belonged to Russia. In 1867, it was sold to the United States after then-President Andrew Johnson signed the Alaska Treaty. It gained the status of a state on January 3, 1959.