For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew ... The event heightened Grant's popularity and depressed Johnson's ...

Unable to mediate the interests of anti-slavery radicals (such as abolitionists) and those of the majority of the South, Johnson also proved inadequate to the tasks of dealing with Congress and ...

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 ...

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 ...