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 ...

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 ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...

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 ...

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.

This had devastating effects on the economy throughout the course of his successor Martin Van Buren’s presidency. Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the history of ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

A former Facebook executive says that for the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, one American president stands head and shoulders above the rest. While traveling with his staff in Tokyo ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...