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The 7 Most Racist Things a President has Said, Ranked
Johnson Here’s a pro tip, political science majors: don’t use a racist slur when talking about people you’re asking to vote ...
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Knowing the Presidents: Andrew Johnson
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 ...
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The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
As historians of the period after the Civil War, we know that for Johnson and Grant, that’s not what happened. President Andrew Johnson pardoning Rebels at the White House. Credit: Stanley Fox/ Harper ...
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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 ...
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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
He is not the first president to push the bounds of his authority. Andrew Johnson fired a Cabinet secretary in defiance of Congress. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court.
Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew Johnson.
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Today in Keys History
Dr. Samuel Mudd, who had been a prisoner for four years at Fort Jefferson for his part in the assassination of Abraham ...
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Andrew Johnson
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 ...