Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South ...

Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...