Curated by It’s That Part™ — Originally published by Voting and Rights on .
Whose job is it to educate Americans? Congress created the first Department of Education just after the Civil War as a way to help reunify a broken country. A year later, it was basically shut down. But the story of that first department’s birth – and death – set the stage for everything that’s come since.
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