In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

In this episode, we explore a Civil War camp in Alabama that shows signs of use by Confederate, Union, and even Andrew Jackson's forces during the Creek Indian War of 1813. With friends visiting from ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.

Keywords Civil War, Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson, radical Republicans, Freedmen's Bureau, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Southern politics, civil rights Email us at footage ...

Bruce Burton notes that “ Andrew Johnson pardoned hundreds of Confederate soldiers . . . to heal the wounds of the Civil War” (Letters, Jan. 24).

Johnson, an unelected president substantively at odds with the popularly elected legislature, was caught in a power struggle regarding the direction of post-Civil War reunification.

A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator calls the “skipped history” of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army. For me, the emerging revisionist ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL)- It’s hard to go through Greeneville and not notice the national history tied to Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States. That history can be explore… ...

Mike Johnson didn’t lead a civil war, of course. But he did try to overturn an election and impose a president Americans hadn’t voted for.