Andrew Johnson

<p><span class="deck">One of the saddest tales in American history tells how a well-intentioned President lost a dazzling opportunity</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “The President came forward and the sun burst through the clouds.”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Was it, as Navy Secretary Welles believed, “a conspiracy to overthrow the government”?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Vinnie Ream sculptured Lincoln while she was still a teen-ager</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The ex-Presidency now carries perquisites and powers that would have amazed all but the last few who have held that office</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Conjectural or speculative history can be a silly game, as in “What if the Roman legions had machine guns?” But this historian argues that to enlarge our knowledge and understanding it sometimes makes very good sense to ask …</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Whatever you were taught or thought you knew about the post-Civil War era is probably wrong in the light of recent study</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">William Jefferson Clinton, Andrew Johnson, and the judgment of history</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage</span></span></p>

<p>An impetuous and sometimes corrupt Congress has often hamstrung the efforts of the president since the earliest days of the republic.</p>

<p>The Senate convened 20 years ago to determine whether President Bill Clinton had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors"</p>

<p>Although he was scrupulously honest, Andrew Johnson angered members of Congress by thwarting their plans for Reconstruction.</p>