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Collection Andrew Johnson Papers

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Selected Archival Resources

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  • American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John Brown Baldwin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Jeremiah S. Black Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Blair Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Edmund Burke Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Benjamin F. Butler Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Causten-Pickett Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Salmon P. Chase Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Edited by John Niven. 43 microfilm reels. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1987. LC catalog record.
  • C. B. Comstock Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • J. L. M. Curry Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • David Davis Correspondence, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Thomas Ewing Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Benjamin B. French Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • James A. Garfield Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Samuel Peter Heintzelman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Joseph Holt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Andrew Johnson Papers, 1833-1875, MS.2073, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn. Finding aid available online External. Other manuscript collections at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville contain documents related to Andrew Johnson. Please consult the SCOUT online catalog External for more information.
  • Andrew Johnson Papers, 1842-1868, New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y. Description available online External. Other manuscript collections at the New-York Historical Society contain correspondence to Andrew Johnson. Please consult the NYHS online catalog External for more information.
  • Andrew Johnson Papers, 1846-1875, Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tenn. Finding aid available online in PDF format External.
  • Andrew Johnson Papers Collection, 1829-1868, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Ill. Description of collection available online through the ARCHIE catalog.
  • Papers of Andrew Johnson Project Records, 1829-2000, AR.0457, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn. Finding aid available online External.
  • Governor Andrew Johnson Papers, 1853-1857, Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tenn. Finding aid available online in PDF format External.
  • Military Governor Andrew Johnson Papers, 1862-1865, Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tenn. Finding aid available online in PDF format External.
  • Library of Congress Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record. See Library of Congress Borrowing Ledgers for borrowing accounts of Andrew Johnson.
  • Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Manton Marble Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Hugh McCulloch Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • George Fort Milton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Justin S. Morrill Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. The National Archives holds documents in several Record Groups related to Andrew Johnson's tenure as a U.S. representative and senator, military governor of Tennessee, and President of the United States. Please consult the National Archives online catalog and web version of Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States for guidance on records related to Andrew Johnson.
  • James K. Polk Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Fitz-John Porter Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Charles Mason Remey Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record. See Series 3: Journals of Charles Mason, 1829-1882
  • Edmund G. Ross Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John McAllister Schofield Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Carl Schurz Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • William Henry Seward Papers, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, University of Rochester Libraries, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. Finding aid available online External.
  • William Henry Seward Papers, circa 1776-1910. Microfilm publication. Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm, Thomson/Gale, 1983. Consists of original documents from the Seward collection at the University of Rochester. LC catalog record.
  • Philip Henry Sheridan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John Sherman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • William T. Sherman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Thaddeus Stevens Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • The Thaddeus Stevens Papers. Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer and Holly Byers Ochoa. 12 microfilm reels. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1993. LC catalog record.
  • The Papers of Charles Sumner. Edited Beverly Wilson Palmer. 85 microfilm reels. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988. LC catalog record.
  • Lyman Trumbull Correspondence, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • B. F. Wade Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • E. B. Washburne Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Gideon Welles Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John H. Wheeler Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John Russell Young Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.

Selected Writings by or Associated with Andrew Johnson

Selected Biographies, Histories, and Other Related Works

  • Bacon, G. W. Life and Speeches of President Andrew Johnson. London: Bacon and Co., 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Brabson, Fay Warrington. Andrew Johnson: A Life in Pursuit of the Right Course, 1808-1875; The Seventeenth President of the United States. Durham, N.C.: Seeman Printery, 1972. LC catalog record.
  • Gordon-Reed, Annette. Andrew Johnson. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011. LC catalog record.
  • Jones, James Sawyer. Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States. Greeneville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Publishing Company, 1901. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1975. LC catalog record.
  • Reece, B. Carroll. The Courageous Commoner: A Biography of Andrew Johnson. Charleston, W.Va.: Education Foundation, 1962. LC catalog record.
  • Savage, John. The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States. Including his State Papers, Speeches and Addresses. New York: Derby & Miller, 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Seward, Frederick William. Andrew Johnson. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1890. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Steele, Robert V. P. [pseudonym, Lately Thomas] The First President Johnson: The Three Lives of the Seventeenth President of the United States of America. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1968. LC catalog record.
  • Stryker, Lloyd Paul. Andrew Johnson: A Study in Courage. New York: Macmillan Company, 1929. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Macmillan Company, 1936. LC catalog record. Reprint, St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1971. LC catalog record.
  • Trefousse, Hans L. Andrew Johnson: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Winston, Robert W. Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1928. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. LC catalog record.

Antebellum Career

  • Bentley, Herbert B. "Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee, 1853-1857." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1972.
  • Bentley, Herbert B. "Andrew Johnson and the Tennessee State Penitentiary, 1853-1857." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 47 (1975): 28-45. LC catalog record .
  • Bergeron, Paul H. Antebellum Politics in Tennessee. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. LC catalog record.
  • Caskey, W. M. "First Administration of Governor Andrew Johnson." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 1 (1929): 43-59. LC catalog record.
  • Caskey, W. M. "Second Administration of Governor Andrew Johnson." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 2 (1930): 34-54. LC catalog record.
  • Freshley, Dwight L. "Vacillation and Venom: Andrew Johnson versus William L. Yancey." Southern Speech Journal 28, no. 2 (Winter 1962): 98-108. LC catalog record.
  • Graf, LeRoy P. "Andrew Johnson and the Coming of the War." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 19, no. 3 (September 1960): 208-221. LC catalog record.
  • Graf, LeRoy P., and Ralph W. Haskins, eds. "Blackston McDannel to Andrew Johnson: An East Tennessean in the Mexican War." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 32 (1960): 106-116. LC catalog record.
  • Graf, LeRoy P., Ralph W. Haskins, and Patricia P. Clark, eds. "The Pension Office to Congressman Andrew Johnson: A List, 1843-1853." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 38 (1966): 97-108. LC catalog record.
  • Rable, George C. "Anatomy of a Unionist: Andrew Johnson in the Secession Crisis." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 32, no. 4 (Winter 1973): 332-354. LC catalog record.
  • Riches, William Terence Martin. "The Commoners: Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln to 1861." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tennessee, 1976.
  • Russell, Robert G. "Andrew Johnson and the Charleston Convention of 1860." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 47 (1975): 46-75. LC catalog record.
  • Russell, Robert G. "Prelude to the Presidency: The Election of Andrew Johnson to the Senate." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1967): 148-176. LC catalog record.
  • Sioussat, St. George L. "Andrew Johnson and the Early Phases of the Homestead Bill." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 5, no. 3 (December 1918): 253-287. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Tricamo, John E. "Tennessee Politics, 1845-1861." Ph.D. dissertation. Columbia University, 1965.
  • White, Robert H. Messages of the Governors of Tennessee. 10 vols. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1952-1990. LC catalog record. See volumes 4-5 for Andrew Johnson's administration.

Civil War, Reconstruction, and Presidency

  • Alexander, Thomas B. Political Reconstruction in Tennessee. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1950. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York: Russell & Russell, 1968. LC catalog record.
  • Baker, Gary G. Andrew Johnson and the Struggle for Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1868. Boston: Heath, 1966. LC catalog record.
  • Baumgardner, James L. "Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and the Federal Patronage: An Attempt to Save Tennessee for the Union?" East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 45 (1973): 51-60. LC catalog record.
  • Baumgardner, James L. "Andrew Johnson and the Patronage." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tennessee, 1969.
  • Beale, Howard K. The Critical Year: A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. New York: F. Ungar Publishing Co., 1958. LC catalog record.
  • Benedict, Michael Les. A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869. New York: W. W. Norton, 1974. LC catalog record.
  • Bergeron, Paul H. Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011. LC catalog record.
  • Boulard, Garry. The Swing Around the Circle: Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency. New York: iUniverse, Inc, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Brigance, William Norwood. "Jeremiah Black and Andrew Johnson." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 19, no. 2 (September 1932): 205-218. LC catalog record.
  • Brock, William Ranulf. An American Crisis: Congress and Reconstruction, 1865-1867. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. LC catalog record.
  • Browning, Orville Hickman. The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. 2 vols. Edited by Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall. Springfield: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1925-1933. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Plenum Publishing Company, 1969. LC catalog record.
  • Burt, Jesse C. "Sherman's Logistics and Andrew Johnson." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 15, no. 3 (September 1956): 195-215. LC catalog record.
  • Campbell, Mary Emily Robertson. The Attitude of Tennesseans Toward the Union, 1847-1861. New York: Vantage Press, 1961. LC catalog record.
  • Castel, Albert E. The Presidency of Andrew Johnson. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1979. LC catalog record.
  • Cimprich, John. "Military Governor Johnson and Tennessee Blacks, 1862-65." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 39, no. 4 (Winter 1980): 459-470. LC catalog record.
  • Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877, Primary Documents in American History, Library of Congress web guide. Available online.
  • Civil War Sheet Music Collection, Library of Congress. Available online.
  • Cox, John H., and LaWanda Cox. "Andrew Johnson and His Ghost Writers: An Analysis of the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights Veto Messages." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 48, no. 3 (December 1961): 460-479. LC catalog record .
  • Crook, W. H. Memories of the White House: The Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt. Edited by Henry Rood. Boston: Little, Brown, 1911. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Crook, W. H. Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-guard to President Lincoln. Edited by Margarita Spalding Gerry. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Crouch, Barry A. "The Merchant and the Senator: An Attempt to Save East Tennessee for the Union." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 46 (1974): 53-75. LC catalog record.
  • Dorris, Jonathan Truman. Pardon and Amnesty under Lincoln and Johnson: The Restoration of the Confederates to Their Rights and Privileges, 1861-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953. LC catalog record. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977. LC catalog record.
  • Fehrenbacher, Don E. "The Making of a Myth: Lincoln and the Vice-Presidential Nomination in 1864." Civil War History 41, no. 4 (December 1995): 273-290. LC catalog record.
  • Foner, Eric. "Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction: A British View." Journal of Southern History 41, no. 3 (August 1975): 381-390. LC catalog record.
  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York: Perennial Classics, 2002. LC catalog record.
  • Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction After the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. LC catalog record. Second edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. LC catalog record. Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. LC catalog record.
  • French, Benjamin B. Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee's Journal, 1828-1870. Edited by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Glonek, James F. "Lincoln, Johnson, and the Baltimore Ticket." Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 6, no. 5 (March 1951): 255-271. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Grant, Ulysses S. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Edited by John Y. Simon. 32 vols. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-2012. See especially vols. 14-19. LC catalog record. Available online External through Mississippi State University Libraries, courtesy of The Ulysses S. Grant Association.
  • Hall, Clifton Rumery. Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1916. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Halperin, Bernard Seymour. "Andrew Johnson, the Radicals, and the Negro, 1865-1866." Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley, 1966.
  • Hardison, Edwin T. "In the Toils of War: Andrew Johnson and the Federal Occupation of Tennessee, 1862-1865." Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Tennessee, 1981.
  • Hardy, William E. "Reconstructing Andrew Johnson: The Influence of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism on President Johnson's Restoration Policy." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 65, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 70-92. LC catalog record.
  • Harris, William C. "Andrew Johnson's First ‘Swing Around the Circle': His Northern Campaign of 1863." Civil War History 35, no. 2 (June 1989): 153-171. LC catalog record.
  • Henry, J. Milton. "The Revolution in Tennessee, February, 1861, to June, 1861." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 18, no. 2 (June 1959): 99-119. LC catalog record .
  • Hyman, Harold M. "Johnson, Stanton, and Grant: A Reconsideration of the Army's Role in the Events Leading to Impeachment." American Historical Review 66, no. 1 (October 1960): 85-100. LC catalog record .
  • Hyman, Harold M. To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. LC catalog record.
  • Jones, Robert B., and Mark E. Byrnes. "'Rebels Never Forgive': Former President Andrew Johnson and the Senate Election of 1869." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 66, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 250-269. LC catalog record.
  • Kendrick, Benjamin B. The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1865-1867. New York: Columbia University, 1914. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955. LC catalog record. Available online External courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
  • Locke, David Ross [pseudonym, Petroleum V. Nasby]. Andy's Trip to the West, Together with a Life of Its Hero. New York: J. C. Haney & Co., 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Locke, David Ross [pseudonym, Petroleum V. Nasby]. "Swingin round the Cirkle"... His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things, as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press, During the Year 1866. Illustrated by Thomas Nast. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Locke, David Ross [pseudonym, Petroleum V. Nasby]. "Swinging Round the Circle"; or, Andy's Trip to the West, Together with a Life of Its Hero. New York: The American News Company, 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Mantell, Martin E. Johnson, Grant, and the Politics of Reconstruction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. LC catalog record.
  • Maslowski, Peter. "From Reconciliation to Reconstruction: Lincoln, Johnson, and Tennessee, Part I." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 42, no. 3 (Fall 1983): 281-298. LC catalog record.
  • Maslowski, Peter. "From Reconciliation to Reconstruction: Lincoln, Johnson, and Tennessee, Part II." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 42, no. 4 (Winter 1983): 343-361. LC catalog record.
  • McGuire, Tom. "Andrew Johnson and the Northern Revolution." Ph.D. dissertation. Columbia University, 2007.
  • McKitrick, Eric L. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. LC catalog record.
  • McPherson, Edward. The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction, (from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870,) Including a Classified summary of the Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses. Washington, D.C.: Philp & Solomons, 1871. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive. This title has been reprinted multiple times and in different editions. Please consult the Library of Congress online catalog for more information on these editions.
  • Means, Howard B. The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days that Changed the Nation. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Milton, George Fort. The Age of Hate. New York: Coward-McCann, 1930. LC catalog record. Reprint, Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1965. LC catalog record.
  • Miscamble, Wilson D. "Andrew Johnson and the Election of William G. ("Parson") Brownlow as Governor of Tennessee." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (Fall 1978): 308-320. LC catalog record.
  • Moore, Robert J. "Andrew Johnson: The Second Swing ‘Round the Circle." Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (1966): 40-48. LC catalog record.
  • Nash, Howard P. Andrew Johnson: Congress and Reconstruction. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972. LC catalog record.
  • Nieman, Donald G. "Andrew Johnson, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Problem of Equal Rights, 1865-1866." Journal of Southern History 44, no. 3 (August 1978): 399-420. LC catalog record.
  • Ortiz-Garcia, Angel Luis. "Andrew Johnson's Veto of the First Reconstruction Act." D.A. dissertation. Carnegie Mellon University, 1970.
  • Patton, James Welch. Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860-1869. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934. LC catalog record. Reprint, Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1966. LC catalog record.
  • Pendel, Thomas F. Thirty-Six Years in the White House: Lincoln-Roosevelt. Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1902. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and the Library of Congress website.
  • Phifer, Gregg. "Andrew Johnson Argues a Case." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11, no. 2 (June 1952): 148-170. LC catalog record.
  • Phifer, Gregg. "Andrew Johnson Delivers His Argument." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11, no. 3 (September 1952): 212-234. LC catalog record.
  • Phifer, Gregg. "Andrew Johnson Loses His Battle." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11, no. 4 (December 1952): 291-328. LC catalog record.
  • Phifer, Gregg. "Andrew Johnson Takes a Trip." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11, no. 1 (March 1952): 3-22. LC catalog record.
  • Phifer, Gregg. "The Last Stand of Presidential Reconstruction: A Rhetorical Study of Andrew Johnson's Swing Around the Circle in 1866." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Iowa, 1949.
  • Riddleberger, Patrick W. 1866, the Critical Year Revisited. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. LC catalog record. Reprint, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984. LC catalog record.
  • Sawrey, Robert. "Northern Voices: Advice to Andrew Johnson, 1865-1866." Mid-America 81, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 27-50. LC catalog record.
  • Schoonover, Thomas. "The Mexican Minister Describes Andrew Johnson's ‘Swing Around the Circle.'" Civil War History 19, no. 2, (June 1973): 149-161. LC catalog record.
  • Schurz, Carl. Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869. Translated and edited by Joseph Schafer. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1928. LC catalog record. Available online through the Library of Congress website. Reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1970. LC catalog record.
  • Seale, William. The President's House: A History. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, 1986. LC catalog record. Second edition, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with White House Historical Association, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Sefton, James E. Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. LC catalog record.
  • Sefton, James E., ed. "Chief Justice Chase as an Advisor on Presidential Reconstruction." Civil War History 13, no. 3 (September 1967): 242-264. LC catalog record .
  • Sigelman, Lee, Christopher J. Deering, and Burdette A. Loomis. "‘Wading Knee Deep in Words, Words, Words': Senatorial Rhetoric in the Johnson and Clinton Impeachment Trials." Congress & The Presidency 28, no. 2 (Autumn 2001): 119-139. LC catalog record.
  • Simpson, Brooks D. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. LC catalog record. Second edition, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. LC catalog record.
  • Sioussat, St. George L. "Notes of Colonel W. G. Moore, Private Secretary to President Johnson, 1866-1868." American Historical Review 19, no. 1 (October 1913): 98-132. LC catalog record. Available online through JSTOR.
  • Speiser, Matt. "The Ticket's Other Half: How and Why Andrew Johnson Received the 1864 Vice Presidential Nomination." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 65, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 42-69. LC catalog record.
  • Stampp, Kenneth M. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877. New York: Knopf, 1965. LC catalog record.
  • Stampp, Kenneth M., and Leon F. Litwack, eds. Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. LC catalog record.
  • Stevens, Thaddeus. The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens. Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer Holly Byers Ochoa. 2 vols. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997-1998. LC catalog record.
  • Stoddard, William O. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. New York: F. A. Stokes & Brother, 1888. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. LC catalog record.
  • Sumner, Charles. The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner. 2 vols. Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. LC catalog record.
  • Swanson, Ryan A. "Andrew Johnson and His Governors: An Examination of Failed Reconstruction Leadership." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 71, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 16-45 LC catalog record.
  • Trefousse, Hans L. "Abraham Lincoln Versus Andrew Johnson: Two Approaches to Reconstruction." In Society in Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király, edited by Steven Bela Vardy and Agnes Huszar Vardy, pages 251-270. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs; New York: Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1983. LC catalog record.
  • Trefousse, Hans L. "Andrew Johnson and the Failure of Reconstruction." In Toward a New View of America: Essays in Honor of Arthur C. Cole, edited by Hans L. Trefousse, pages 135-150. New York: B. Franklin, 1977. LC catalog record.
  • U.S. Presidential Inaugurations: "I Do Solemnly Swear..." A Resource Guide. Page documenting Andrew Johnson's swearing-in as president is available online on the Library of Congress website.
  • United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Wedge, Lucius. "Andrew Johnson and the Ministers of Nashville: A Study in the Relationship between War, Politics, and Morality." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Akron, 2013.
  • Welles, Gideon. The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy. Edited by William E. Gienapp and Erica L. Gienapp. Urbana, Ill.: Knox College Lincoln Studies Center and University of Illinois Press, 2014. LC catalog record.
  • Welles, Gideon. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. 3 vols. Edited by Edgar T. Welles. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Welles, Gideon. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson. 3 vols. Edited by Howard K. Beale. New York: W. W. Norton, 1960. LC catalog record.
  • Welles, Gideon. "Lincoln and Johnson. Their Plan of Reconstruction and the Resumption of National Authority. First Paper." The Galaxy 13, no. 4 (Apr. 1872): 521-532. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Welles, Gideon. "Lincoln and Johnson. Their Plan of Reconstruction and the Resumption of National Authority. Second Paper." The Galaxy 13, no. 5 (May 1872): 663-673. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Whyte, James Huntington. The Uncivil War: Washington During the Reconstruction, 1865-1878. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1958. LC catalog record.
  • Williams, Harry. "Andrew Johnson as a Member of the Committee on the Conduct of the War." East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 12 (1940): 70-83. LC catalog record.
  • Zebley, Kathleen Rosa. "Rebel Salvation: The Story of Confederate Pardons." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998. Available online in PDF External format.

Impeachment

  • Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1973. LC catalog record.
  • Benedict, Michael Les. "A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson." Political Science Quarterly 88, no. 3 (September 1973): 349-367. LC catalog record .
  • DeWitt, David Miller. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States: A History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. LC catalog record.
  • Donald, David Herbert. "Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson." American Heritage 8, no. 1 (December 1956): 20-25, 102-103. LC catalog record. Available online through American Heritage External.
  • Foster, G. Allen. Impeached: The President Who Almost Lost His Job. New York: Criterion Books, 1964. LC catalog record.
  • The Great Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. With the Whole of the Preliminary Proceedings in the House of Representatives, and in the Senate of the United States. Together with the Eleven Articles of Impeachment and the Whole of the Proceedings in the Court of Impeachment, with Verbatim Evidence of All the Witnesses, and Cross-examinations of Them. With the Speeches of the Managers and the Counsel on Both Sides, with the Decisions of Chief Justice Chase, and the Verdict of the Court. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1868. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1974. LC catalog record.
  • Hearn, Chester G. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2000. LC catalog record.
  • Honey, Michael K. Records of Impeachment. Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1987. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
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  • Proceedings in the Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, Before the United States Senate, on Articles of Impeachment Exhibited by the House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1868. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
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  • Stewart, David O. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. LC catalog record. A webcast of Stewart speaking on Impeached at the Library of Congress in 2009 is available online.
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  • Trefousse, Hans L. Impeachment of a President: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York: Fordham University Press, 1999. LC catalog record.
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  • United States Congress. Impeachment Investigation: Testimony Taken before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives in the Investigation of the Charges Against Andrew Johnson. Second Session, Thirty-ninth Congress, and First Session, Fortieth Congress. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1867. Available online through HathiTrust External.
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Selected Related Resources

  • Aldrich, Charles. "The Eloquence of Andrew Johnson." Magazine of American History 25, no. 1 (January 1891): 47-54. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Alexander, Thomas B. "Strange Bedfellows: The Interlocking Careers of T. A. R. Nelson, Andrew Johnson and W. G. (Parson) Brownlow." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 51 (1979): 54-77. LC catalog record.
  • Andrew Johnson House, 217 South Main Street, Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn., HABS TN-142, Historic American Buildings Survey, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online.
  • Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, 121 Monument Avenue, Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn., HALS TN-6, Historic American Landscapes Survey, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Data pages available online.
  • Andrew Johnson National Historic Site and National Cemetery, Greeneville, Tenn. Website.
  • Bond, John W. Andrew Johnson House (1831-1851). Washington, D.C.: Division of History, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, 1968. LC catalog record.
  • Bowen, David Warren. "Andrew Johnson and the Negro." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 40 (1968): 28-49. LC catalog record.
  • Bowen, David Warren. Andrew Johnson and the Negro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Castel, Albert. "Andrew Johnson: His Historiographical Rise and Fall." Mid-America 45 (July 1963): 175-184. LC catalog record.
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875. Online resource through the Library of Congress.
  • Chronicling America, digitized historic American newspapers, available online through the Library of Congress.
  • Colton, J. H. Map of the Pacific Rail Road and Its Connections, with the Seaports of the United States of America. New York: Johnson & Browning, 1860, 1875. LC catalog record. Map transferred from the Andrew Johnson Papers, Manuscript Division, to Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress.
  • Congressional Information on the Library of Congress Web Site. Available online.
  • Connally, Ernest Allan. "The Andrew Johnson Homestead at Greeneville, Tennessee." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 29 (1957): 118-140. LC catalog record.
  • Crowther, Edward W. "‘Jacob's Ladder': The Religious Views of Andrew Johnson." Journal of East Tennessee History 65 (1993): 53-69. LC catalog record.
  • Cutler, Wayne. "Jackson, Polk, and Johnson: Defenders of the Moral Economy." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 54, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 178-189. LC catalog record.
  • Dickinson, John N., comp. Andrew Johnson, 1808-1875: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1970. LC catalog record.
  • Doughty, Richard Harrison. Greeneville: One Hundred Year Portrait (1775-1875). Greeneville, Tenn.: Doughty, 1975. LC catalog record.
  • Hager, Paul A. "Andrew Johnson of East Tennessee." Ph.D. dissertation. John Hopkins University, 1975.
  • Hart, Roger L. Redeemers, Bourbons & Populists: Tennessee, 1870-1896. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975. LC catalog record.
  • Haskins, Ralph W. "Internecine Strife in Tennessee: Andrew Johnson Versus Parson Brownlow." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 24, no. 4 (Winter 1965): 321-340. LC catalog record.
  • Hays, Willard. "Andrew Johnson's Reputation." Part 1 of 2. East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 31 (1959): 1-31. LC catalog record.
  • Hays, Willard. "Andrew Johnson's Reputation." Part 2 of 2. East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 32 (1960): 18-50. LC catalog record.
  • Jones, Robert B. "The Press and the Legislature: Andrew Johnson's Election to the U.S. Senate in 1875." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 62, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 238-257. LC catalog record.
  • McCaslin, Richard B. Andrew Johnson: A Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992. LC catalog record.
  • McDonough, James Lee, and William T. Alderson. "Republican Politics and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1967): 177-183. LC catalog record.
  • McKitrick, Eric L., ed. Andrew Johnson: A Profile. New York: Hill & Wang, 1969. LC catalog record.
  • Milton, George Fort. "Andrew Johnson—Man of Courage." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 3 (1931): 23-34. LC catalog record.
  • Notaro, Carmen Anthony. "History of the Biographic Treatment of Andrew Johnson in the Twentieth Century." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 24, no. 2 (Summer 1965): 143-155. LC catalog record.
  • Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera. Online resource through the Library of Congress.
  • Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online. The site offers a number of photographs and illustrations of or including Andrew Johnson.
  • Sargent, Mildred Crow. Andrew and Eliza Johnson. Philadelphia: Exlibris, 2009. LC catalog record.
  • Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R., and Richard Zuczek. Andrew Johnson: A Biographical Companion. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • Smith, Russell M. "The Andrew Johnson Papers." Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, 17, no. 1 (November 1959): 13-16. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Stampp, Kenneth M. Andrew Johnson and the Failure of the Agrarian Dream: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 18 May 1962. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1962. LC catalog record.
  • Truman, Benjamin C. "Anecdotes of Andrew Johnson." Century Magazine 85, no. 3 (January 1913): 435-440. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Turner, Harriot S. "Recollections of Andrew Johnson." Harper's Monthly Magazine 120, no. 716 (January 1910): 168-176. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.