Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction of the Union while addressing issues such as African-American civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ...

In frequent speeches and interviews, Johnson publicly expressed his defiance of the Radical Republicans. They knew that their program for reconstruction of the South could not succeed with Andrew ...

Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, becomes president. May: President Johnson announces his plan of Presidential Reconstruction. It calls for general amnesty and restoration of property -- except ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

City leaders have discussed reverting Andrew Johnson Building back to a hotel since at least 2007 when former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale asked former Knox County Schools Superintendent Roy ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic ... the people and the new president, Andrew Johnson, were with them. They had not watched the country bleed simply to reunite it, unmended ...

Andrew Johnson's history in Greenville TN goes back to his childhood. He was born in Raleigh North Carolina in 1808 and apprenticed to a tailor there while still very young. He and his brother ran ...