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

There can be but little doubt left in the minds of those who have attentively perused the details of the plot to assassinate the leaders of the government, that ANDREW JOHNSON, who has endured so ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson ... on April 15, 1865. He was a Union man, but his roots were ...

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 ...

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 ...