On Jan. 1, 1863, nearly two years into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...

On Feb. 12th, 1999 Clinton was acquitted of lying under oath and obstruction of justice, as less than two-thirds of US ...

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In fact, in May 1865, President Andrew Johnson issued one of several blanket ... “The presumption of the amnesty proclamation is everyone committed treason,” says University of Virginia ...

Of these 17, the most divisive figure, without question, was Andrew ... so, Johnson and the Radical Republicans remained at odds, with the intractable stalemate coming to a head in 1868 when ...

and hold it subject to the order of the said Government of the United States. ANDREW JOHNSON, Military Governor of Tennessee. FEB. 20, 1863. Advertisement ...

The President has issued his proclamation announcing the ratification of the treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the United States and the Republic of Nicaragua. There is to be a ...

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Not long after, he had a son and named him Andrew Johnson—presumably in honor of the man who succeeded Lincoln in the presidency and had pardoned all ex-Confederates by the end of 1868.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew ... the Senate in 1868. He is also remembered for his extreme views on race during the early days of Reconstruction. Some blame Johnson for ...

His final proclamation of freedom in Tennessee ... that triumph over his traditional prejudices. The impression of Andrew Johnson which this book gives us is that of a deep, powerful, impassioned ...