The Civil War exposes the risks of charging — or not charging — Trump. Andrew Johnson chose lenient punishments for the Confederate leadership. It helped fuel Jim Crow, but prevented renewed ...

Before he was impeached, President Andrew Johnson considered himself a champion of the common man — but only when those common men were white.

Andrew Johnson: The impeached ... when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running for re-election during the Civil War ... Despite the personal pleas of abolitionist leader Frederick ...

President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment shows how removing a president can inflame tensions in an already divided ... How should the federal government treat Confederate leaders and seceded states?

Andrew Johnson, 29 Dec 1808 ... In addition to pardoning former Confederate leaders, Johnson vetoed the Freedman’s Bureau Bill, the Civil Rights Bill, and three military Reconstruction acts, all ...

He was released from indemnity by Andrew Johnson, a pro-slavery, anti-Black President. ... controversial general who was critical of the Confederate leadership and saw people against him everywhere.

Two years after the fateful month of April 1865, when the Confederacy surrendered, ending the Civil War, and John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC, America’s 17th president ...

In Andrew Johnson, ... U.S. Presidents The so-called accidental president is often cited among America's worst leaders. ... would go back to how it was before the Civil War, only without ...

The Confederate leader’s prospects were grim in April 1865 after the South surrendered and President Abraham ... has degenerated into a farce” because of “the perfidy of Andrew Johnson, ...

The Midtown Scholar Bookstore and National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania co-hosted this event. ... in part due to the poor leadership of President Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson set back freedom for blacks ... Each assassinated president associated with civil rights — one fought a civil war, ... inflexible and lacked the leadership qualities of his ...

On Christmas Day 1868, Johnson issued a total and complete pardon for the hundreds of thousands of former Confederate soldiers and leaders, “effectively expunging the crime of treason from the ...