Arthur or Millard Fillmore) would be complete without our 17th president, Andrew Johnson. His presidency would end in disgrace, but in 1864, when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running ...

Today marks the birthday of perhaps the most-maligned president in American history. But was Andrew Johnson really that bad, or just the target of some second-guessing historians? 800px-Andew ...

Fox Nation's new documentary "The First Impeachment," re-examines the history of the nation's seminal experience with a Constitutional crisis of this magnitude, when President Andrew Johnson faced ...

You can reach Shane by emailing s.croucher@newsweek.com The historian Jon Meacham described Donald Trump as the most racist president in American history alongside slavery-era Andrew Johnson.

The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the ...

Today marks the anniversary of the passing of Andrew Johnson, perhaps the most-criticized president in American history. Johnson died from a stroke on July 31, 1875 while visiting his daughter in ...

Keep reading for more on Johnson’s hardscrabble life and tenure as U.S. president. 1. Andrew Johnson never went to school. Born in December 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina to two working-class ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

Yesterday morning Attorney-General SPEED waited upon Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States, and officially informed him of the sudden and unexpected decease of President LINCOLN ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...