the Reconstruction period failed to solidify the promise of African American equality, in part due to the poor leadership of President Andrew Johnson. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore and National ...

Historians Brenda Wineapple and Eric Foner discussed the legacy of the impeachment and acquittal of President Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction. Historians Brenda Wineapple and Eric Foner discussed ...

On this day in 1868, President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Omnibus Southern ... with congressional Radical Republicans over the shape of Reconstruction policies throughout the South.

Lincoln was gunned down in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a man sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy. In the years ...

Image Robert S. Levine, the author of “The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.”Credit...James Ferry Senator Charles Sumner was one of the ...

In frequent speeches and interviews, Johnson publicly expressed his defiance of the Radical Republicans. They knew that their program for reconstruction of the South could not succeed with Andrew ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, and he stood in the way of a Reconstruction that would have done more to help former slaves. But he was still able ...

Why do you think Andrew Johnson was impeached ... to prevent him from firing Stanton and undoing the Reconstruction Laws. I don’t think Congress really thought he was going to break that ...

Andrew Johnson came from humble beginnings in Tennessee ... and when they are drafting reconstruction laws... to force the southern states to reconstitute themselves and basically get the ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, and he stood in the way of a Reconstruction that would have done more to help former slaves. But he was still able ...