Andrew Johnson ... his fascinating if flawed new book about Reconstruction and Johnson’s eventual impeachment, a number of Black leaders and Radical Republicans were in fact hopeful that ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the ... Reconstruction by deeming the Republican experiment in black citizenship a failure, and by portraying former Confederates as victims of ...

The presidency of Andrew ... Johnson was coming under heavy fire for his Southern philosophy on reconstruction and formerly enslaved people. Under his presidency, southern states began enacting ...

"Everyone would and must admit that the white race is superior to the black," Johnson said. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered ...

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.

Only three US presidents have faced potential removal from office by way of impeachment; Andrew ... of freed black Americans turned the tide of historical sympathy against him. Mr Johnson was ...

Answer: Andrew Johnson, who served out Lincoln’s second term after the assassination, and Bill Clinton. Nope, can’t count Richard Nixon on a technicality. He resigned before the House could ...

When Andrew Johnson illegally tried to fire ... Lincoln’s reconstruction plan to advance the rights of Black people in the South. Johnson, a racist from Tennessee, pushed to ease sanctions ...

Tell us about Andrew Johnson ... that motivated Johnson, and the comparisons to Trump. But lay out that period and how he was trying to continue the disenfranchisement of black people and of ...