A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union sympathizers in the Border States. Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate ...

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 ...

Most of the 45 men who have served as president were e indifferent to the needs of Black folks or actively opposed to ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.

Johnson decided that the Southern states were only required to swear fealty to the Union and incorporate the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, into their state constitutions -- all else was up ...

the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War Lorraine Boissoneault The biggest show in Washington 150 years ago was the trial against the President of the United States Annette Gordon-Reed The ...

Utility-scale solar power can be a boon for Iowa if policymakers let it, writes Andrew Johnson of Clean Energy Districts of ...