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President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...
Donald Trump’s presidency is the subject of extensive allegations and watchdog reports asserting an unprecedented scale of self-enrichment and transactional politics; multiple recent analyses claim hi...
Donald J. Trump is the first former U.S. president to be criminally indicted, facing multiple federal and state prosecutions whose outcomes remain subject to ongoing litigation and trial scheduling . ...
Questions asking “who is the dumbest American president ever?” collapse a complex, contested debate into an insult; historians and analysts instead use rankings, expert polls and disputed IQ estimates...
A handful of U.S. presidents and former presidents have faced arrest, investigation, indictment or conviction at different times; the standout in recent years is Donald Trump, who was charged in multi...
Available reporting identifies at least a half‑dozen U.S. presidents with documented Mayflower ancestry — most commonly cited are John Adams (and his son John Quincy Adams), Zachary Taylor, Franklin D...
A notable handful of U.S. presidents have verifiable lines to one or more Mayflower passengers; those most consistently documented in the genealogical literature include John Adams and John Quincy Ada...
began in the mid-1850s as a northern coalition formed to stop the expansion of slavery into western territories after Congress passed the , which reopened the slavery question in the territories . Ant...
president, based on the sources reviewed, was criminally charged or convicted prior to assuming the presidency; the historical record instead records near-misses, post‑inaugural scandals, and a handfu...
The Insurrection Act, a federal statute first enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize deployment of federal troops or federalization of state militias to su...
The Ku Klux Klan (first incarnation) began in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865–66 as a small, oath‑bound fraternal group of mostly former Confederate soldiers that quickly transformed into a violent, white...
Only one U.S. president has been criminally convicted: Donald J. Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a New York hush‑money case tied to the 2016 campaign . No ...
is vanishingly rare in history: the post-Civil War case of in 1876 is the canonical example, and the House’s 2024 impeachment of reopened a long-dormant tool of whose practical outcome—Senate acquitta...
Yes. A former U.S. president — Donald J. Trump — was arrested after leaving office; his 2023 booking in Georgia marked the first time a former president faced criminal charges and had a mugshot taken ...
A small set of U.S. presidents tested—or openly pursued—the idea of a third full presidential term before the 22nd Amendment made that prospect constitutionally unavailable; the clearest cases are Fra...
The has been used sporadically across —beginning in the early republic and reappearing in reconstruction, labor disputes, civil‑rights enforcement and urban unrest—with presidents from through invokin...
Ulysses S. Grant repeatedly relied on the Insurrection Act and related federal powers in the early 1870s to deploy troops and federalize state forces against violent white-supremacist organizations—mo...
Executive Summary Historians evaluate U.S. presidents using a that blends measurable accomplishments with judgments about leadership, character, and historical context; common rubrics prioritize goal ...
Federal — especially the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and the Enforcement Act of 1871 (commonly called the Ku Klux Act) — created explicit federal criminal authority, authorized use of troops, and allowed...