On Feb. 12th, 1999 Clinton was acquitted of lying under oath and obstruction of justice, as less than two-thirds of US senators voted to convict. The Philippines similarly requires two-thirds, or 16 ...

As summer approaches, don’t forget your history. Here’s a presidential lesson or two. John Quincy Adams — despite his great ...

A collection of Confederate generals, including Jefferson Davis, composed by the United States between 1861 and 1865, who ...

One of the many headlines President Donald Trump made in May 2025 was his announcement that he would grant full pardons to ...

On May 26, 1954, more than 100 crewmembers of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington died in an explosion off Rhode Island.

Next steps on the bill are highly uncertain, and the upbeat tone from House leadership stood at odds with the unwieldy scene ...

Deficit hawks are also miffed that GOP leadership ... Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) said. “There are a lot of people that are unhappy with a lot of provisions.” That hesitation means Johnson ...

“But I think in the 1860s, it’s unequivocally clear that slavery was the fundamental cleavage—one that’s reflected in the fact that we had a civil war.” Republicans opposed ...

Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States ... Johnson granted pardons to many former Confederate leaders and permitted the Southern states to form new governments with minimal ...

The statue now stands in the spot where a Confederate monument ... and DeKalb Commissioner Davis Johnson; former Atlanta mayor and United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, civil rights activist ...

If Lincoln’s handpicked successor, Andrew Johnson, adopted a lenient approach toward the former Confederate leaders and resisted measures to protect freed women and men and contributed to ...

But for the 1864 election, as the Civil War was starting to wind down, the Republican party leaders replaced Hamlin with Andrew Johnson, a Democrat from the southern state of Tennessee. Johnson had ...