Arthur or Millard Fillmore) would be complete without our 17th president, Andrew Johnson. His presidency would end in disgrace, but in 1864, when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running ...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews University of Virginia historian Barbara Perry about the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Andrew Johnson presidency. Perry explains how he was chosen as ...

Today marks the birthday of perhaps the most-maligned president in American history. But was Andrew Johnson really that bad, or just the target of some second-guessing historians? 800px-Andew ...

Today marks the anniversary of the passing of Andrew Johnson, perhaps the most-criticized president in American history. Johnson died from a stroke on July 31, 1875 while visiting his daughter in ...

James Grimes was tormented with doubt. The senator from Iowa couldn’t stand Andrew Johnson, the belligerent, racist president on trial before the Senate, charged with defying Congress and the law.

Yesterday morning Attorney-General SPEED waited upon Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States, and officially informed him of the sudden and unexpected decease of President LINCOLN ...

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 carefully compiled list gives in full the official record of the exercise of the veto power by ANDREW JOHNSON during ... all the vetoes of all the Presidents that preceded him ...

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 ...

Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States. He is one of the least known presidents except for the fact that Congress tried to Impeach him and really to understand the man ...