The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

In this episode, we explore a Civil War camp in Alabama that shows signs of use by Confederate, Union, and even Andrew Jackson's forces during the Creek Indian War of 1813. With friends visiting from ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Take Tennessee, where the Eighth of August, known as Emancipation Day, has been the traditional celebration to mark the end of slavery, remind the nation of its bloodguilt and agitate for a more ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created.

In fact, in May 1865, President Andrew Johnson issued one of several blanket amnesty proclamations to broad swaths of confederates, extending an olive branch to any now willing to pledge loyalty ...

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Bruce Burton notes that “ Andrew Johnson pardoned hundreds of Confederate soldiers . . . to heal the wounds of the Civil War” (Letters, Jan. 24).

Johnson, an unelected president substantively at odds with the popularly elected legislature, was caught in a power struggle regarding the direction of post-Civil War reunification.

When his home state of Tennessee became the final one to secede from the Union in June of 1861 - Johnson stood with his country remaining loyal to the United States during the Civil War.

A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator calls the “skipped history” of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army. For me, the emerging revisionist ...