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

Although John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected President in 1960 at the age of 43, Theodore Roosevelt became the ...

Vice President Johnson had assumed office after John Wilkes ... The final blow came after the passage of the Tenure of Office Act in 1867. This law made it impossible for the president to dismiss ...

Pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869, Spangler moved to Maryland ... Tried by a civilian court in 1867-1868, Surratt was not convicted. He would survive until 1916.

But it was also one of history’s most legislatively active presidencies. President Johnson was essential to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and even the ...

The reasons for the US to possibly want control of Greenland aren't hard to discern - from access to a key emerging sea route to rare earth elements.