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 ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, fervently wanted to declare victory and move on and he prevailed in that ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew ... of War, Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton was the only member of Johnson's ...

Chervinsky When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War Lorraine Boissoneault The biggest show in Washington 150 years ...