Andrew Johnson: The impeached president 06:21. A question on this Presidents' Day weekend: ... "It's impossible to conceive of the America of 1865 when Johnson took office," said Means.

Harvard University professor Annette Gordon-Reed talked about the legacy of Andrew Johnson, the nation's 17th president who took office following Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Professor ...

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?

To ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States. Mr. JOHNSON requested that the ceremony take place at his rooms at the Kirkwood House, in this city, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ... Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death.

ANDREW JOHNSON has been in continuous ... His political antecedents from 1835 to 1865 have ... But BELL and WHITE carried the State for Governor and Legislature in 1835 and the Presidency in 1836 ...

1865-1880 photo from the Library of Congress shows a damaged glass negative of President Andrew Johnson But, there was a contest for power in a nation struggling with reunification.

When Andrew Johnson became president in 1865, the United States was in the midst of one of its most volatile chapters. The country was divided after fighting a bloody civil war and had just ...

Andrew Johnson was the first U.S. president to face impeachment proceedings, narrowly avoiding a conviction at his Senate trial following one of the most divisive periods in American history.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed presents a biography of the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson (1865-1869). A Southern Democrat who remained aligned with the ...