Vice President Johnson had assumed office after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, on April 15 ... of the South could not succeed with Andrew Johnson in office.

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

That night, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd ... while other abortive attacks were intended to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and Grant—the latter was supposed to have ...

As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic ... ushering in a time of political uncertainty. Vice ...

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier ... D.C. The president died the next morning, and Vice President Andrew Johnson entered the nation's highest office.

Harold Holzer - Author, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham ... in Lincoln’s murder. (Davis, Clay and other Confederate leaders ultimately received amnesty from President Andrew Johnson.) ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier ... D.C. The president died the next morning, and Vice President Andrew Johnson entered the nation's highest office.

On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they managed to avoid the total destruction of one of Paris' most recognizable ...