President Andrew Johnson, who is best known for being the first president to be impeached, vetoed protectionist legislation ...

The following article from Walkes' Spirit of the Times, lifts the mystery from the singular conduct of Vice-President JOHNSON ... THE POISONING OF ANDREW JOHNSON. -- There can be but little ...

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 ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

As historians of the period after the Civil War, we know that for Johnson and Grant, that’s not what happened. President Andrew Johnson pardoning Rebels at the White House. Credit: Stanley Fox/ Harper ...

In my strolls around town with some of my friends I had some difficulty in finding the home pointed out by tradition as being the birthplace and home of the boyhood of President Andrew Johnson.

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Dr. Samuel Mudd, who had been a prisoner for four years at Fort Jefferson for his part in the assassination of Abraham ...

A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination Vanessa Armstrong A new podcast series explores ...