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 ...

Johnson modeled himself after another Tennessee politician: Andrew Jackson. The seventh president of the United ... East Tennessee have celebrated that date as Emancipation Day ever since.

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 ...

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 ...

You can reach Shane by emailing [email protected] The historian Jon Meacham described Donald Trump as the most racist president in American history alongside slavery-era Andrew Johnson.

Tickets to the Johnson impeachment trial were color-coded to indicate dates for the proceedings ... 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and ...

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 ...

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.

Andrew Johnson, the so-called accidental president, is often cited among America's worst leaders. Annette Gordon-Reed is inclined to agree. In her book Andrew Johnson, she calls attention to the ...

We know that. We also know that no president has ever been removed from office after it was handed over to the Senate, but Andrew Johnson, President Johnson came close. He came the closest.

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 ...