Andrew Slap of East Tennessee State University taught a class on Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and the Constitution. He compared how… read more Andrew Slap of East Tennessee State University ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Hannibal Hamlin was vice president during Abraham Lincoln’s first term as president, but when Lincoln ran for re-election in 1864, he tapped Andrew Johnson, a Southerner ...

Q: In choosing his second-term running mate, why did Republican Abraham Lincoln pick Democrat Andrew Johnson, who was against what Lincoln wanted to do? Answer to Wednesday’s trivia: On Feb. 20 ...

On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president hours later. And just like ...

Raised in poverty, uneducated, a working class figure whose political ethos was "my way or the highway," Andrew Johnson's surprising rise to the Oval Office upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination ...

President Andrew Johnson signed an executive order upholding the convictions of Confederate sympathizers who had conspired to assassinate his predecessor in office, Abraham Lincoln. Earlier on ...

On April 14, 1865, Abraham ... Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Eight of the conspirators were ultimately arrested and brought to trial. Edwin M. Stanton—Lincoln's ...

On this day in 1875, Andrew Johnson, who became the nation’s 17th president in 1865 with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, died of a stroke in Tennessee at age 66, shortly after having ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill., April 1.--Perhaps the finest and most correct picture ever taken of Abraham Lincoln as he appeared when he was a practicing lawyer at the Bloomington Bar, is on exhibition at ...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews University of Virginia historian Barbara Perry about the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Andrew Johnson ... after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

John Wilkes Booth was an actor, and he carried off his assassination of Abraham Lincoln in a particularly ... conspiracy to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William ...