On February 24, 1868, something extraordinary happened in the U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat ...

A longtime Connecticut State Community College Norwalk history professor contextualizes the history of presidential pardons.

Citing Senate rules dating back to President Andrew Johnson's 1868 impeachment trial, they argue that the chief justice has the authority to issue subpoenas for testimony and documents at the ...

Mr Trump is the third US president to have been impeached. The two others, Bill Clinton in 1999 and Andrew Johnson in 1868, were left in power by the Senate and did not seek re-election.

That is the verdict of many on the impeachment charges levelled against Sara Zimmerman Duterte, 46, the Vice President and the former secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd), from July 1, ...

What can 1868 teach us about 2020 Going to the Devil The Impeachment of 1868 the firsttimeever original narrative documentary from The Great Courses is a unique retelling of the turbulent events ...

In American history, only five sitting presidents have ever faced formal impeachment probes. The first was Andrew Johnson in 1868. The second came more than a century later, when the House ...