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 ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor ... persuaded Republican delegates to make Johnson, a Democrat, his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death.

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 ...

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 new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination Vanessa Armstrong A new podcast series explores ...