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

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

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.

As high-profile longtime New York Democrats flock to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and high-powered progressives join forces to block his comeback tour, the city’s relatively recent adoption of ranked choice ...

Discover the 5 worst presidents in US history and how Trump and Biden compare. Expert analysis of presidential failures and ...

Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the ...

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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). True, but President Johnson also stipulated ...

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. In 1862 ...

Another of the new generation of Civil War students, attorney W. Steven Harrell of Perry, Ga., has found pension records showing that Sheats himself, having been freed from prison, rushed to the ...