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

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

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

The following article from Walkes' Spirit of the Times, lifts the mystery from the singular conduct of Vice-President JOHNSON ... THE POISONING OF ANDREW JOHNSON. -- There can be but little ...

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 ...

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 funding for underserved students.

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South ...

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 ...