The big picture: As the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, many have forgotten ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

President Andrew Johnson, who is best known for being the first president to be impeached, vetoed protectionist legislation ...

Learn how the pardoning of insurrectionists by Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant led to periods of national harmony and violence.

As the purpose and meaning of the 14th Amendment are once again debated, it’s well worth learning more about one of its primary authors: George S. Boutwell.

House Speaker Mike Johnson formally unveiled plans on Saturday for a government funding stopgap through September 30 — a measure intended to stave off a potential March 14 shutdown and buy time ...

As historians of the period after the Civil War, we know that for Johnson and Grant, that’s not what happened. Johnson signed an amnesty that gave a blanket pardon to all former Confederate ...

Nigel Farage hit back at Rupert Lowe as Reform UK descended into civil war today. He insisted Reform is not a "protest party" and swiped that Mr Lowe would not have had a "cat's chance in hell" of ...

Advertisement Civil war might be the least of our worries. I strongly disagree with most of what Franklin Roosevelt did (I wasn’t alive then), and I disapproved of much of what Lyndon Johnson ...

Nor, almost 80 years after it was founded out of the ashes of World War Two, can the NATO alliance count on business as usual. America is rightly fed up doing all the heavy lifting for Europe's ...

These are familiar themes for acclaimed Australian playwright Andrew Bovell. His 2008 play When the Rain Stopped Falling covers similar territory, and employs a comparably twisty approach to ...