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 ...

On February 24, 1868, something extraordinary happened in the U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat ...

Tickets to the Johnson impeachment trial were color-coded to indicate dates for the proceedings, which lasted more than two months. Wendel A. White It promised to be a spectacle in a period that ...