Former president claims critics 'don't want to remember' America's past while Trump warns holiday costs billions ...

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

In April 1865, assassination vaulted Johnson into ... Johnson told the governor of Missouri. On Aug. 27, 1866, President Johnson embarked on an unprecedented 18-day speaking tour in an attempt ...

The ceremony unfolded in the historic White House East Room, where President Biden reflected on its legacy as the site where President Lincoln met Frederick Douglass in 1865 to "unify the nation." ...

There never was a greater insult to the intelligence of a free people than the claim of the Democratic party to the special championship of the reconstruction policy of President JOHNSON.

On March 4, 1865, at the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson made a speech in the Senate chambers before being sworn in as the 16th Vice-President of the United States.

Johnson took over as president in 1963 following the assassination ... being shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth on 14 April 1865. The American Civil War was over and the Republican had the ...

US President Lyndon B Johnson at the White House in Washington ... mate of Abraham Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket in 1865. The same year, Lincoln was assassinated and Johnson took ...

Grant, the head of the Union Army, on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, the Civil War did not end until 16 months later. The official end came when President Andrew Johnson ...

The terrible agony which began on the night of the 14th of April, 1865, was over at seven on ... army had not much tempered his wrath. President Johnson had also returned only five days before ...