The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

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Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

The newspaper of ... Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson. A whirlwind of rage, Johnson was barely literate. The former tailor was impeached during his one term (1865-69). Naming the Tennessee ...

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

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National ...

Also on this date: In 1865, Union Maj. Gen ... (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson, inspired the expression, “40 acres and a mule.”) In 1942, actor Carole Lombard, 33 ...

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More than ever,” the MSNBC host said in her Monday night broadcast, “this is not a time to pretend this isn’t happening" ...