Executive orders have precipitated many of the most significant events in our nation’s history. For example, on Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln officially issued the Emancipation ...

And in 1942, he issued one of the most controversial executive orders in history. That order demanded that 120,000 Japanese-Americans (70,000 of them citizens) ...

History; politics; 9 Executive Orders That Changed American History; 9 Executive Orders That Changed American History. 5 minute read. By Lily Rothman. February 6, 2017 2:00 PM EST.

The Most Memorable in Our History of Executive Orders. George Washington was the first president to issue an executive order on April 22, 1793.

If the history of executive orders tells us anything, it’s that such orders — in spite of their civil-liberties’-abridging potential — can also be checked by democratic institutions and ...

President Joe Biden signs executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021.(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) Like other recent ...

That brings us to the boldest executive order in history: The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863. Using his war powers as commander in chief, he freed all ...

The first real jump of executive orders came during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. While Lincoln issued what was at the time a record of 48 himself, Andrew Johnson issued 79 in less than ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hamline University political science professor David Schultz talked the types of executive orders, the history of executive orders and how the ...

The Story Behind Executive Orders : 1A We've heard about a lot of them the last few weeks. They're one powerful tool in a commander-in-chief's arsenal to enact their agenda. Donald Trump has made ...

Trump executive order aims to remove DEI initiatives from Smithsonian and other cultural bodies The "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order removes "divisive, race-centered ideology ...

David Abshire talked about the history of executive orders, laws made by the president that bypassing Congress. At the time of this program, President Obama had begun to use executive orders ...