Bibliography of Andrew Johnson


This bibliography of Andrew Johnson is a list of major works about Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States.

Major

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Scholarly and popular studies

  • Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson].
  • Boulard, Garry. The Swing Around the Circle—Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency
  • Broomall, James J. "Ulysses S. Grant Goes to Washington: The Commanding General as Secretary of War." in A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865–1881 pp: 214-234.
  • Castel, Albert E. "Andrew Johnson". In Graff, Henry. The Presidents: A Reference History. pp. 225–239
  • Cox, LaWanda C. and John Henry Cox. Politics, principle, and prejudice, 1865-1866: dilemma of Reconstruction America.
  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, a major scholarly survey; also in an abridged edition.
  • Fuentes-Rohwer, Luis. "The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson." in A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865–1881 : 62-84.
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  • Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage, popular
  • Levine, Robert S. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
  • Mantell, Martin E. Johnson, Grant, and the Politics of Reconstruction
  • Means, Howard. The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days That Changed the Nation.
  • Sledge, James L. III. "Johnson, Andrew," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.
  • Stewart, David O. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy.
  • Van Deusen, Glyndon. William Henry Seward, the Secretary of State.
  • Wineapple, Brenda. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. New York: Random House.
  • Zuczek, Richard. "Foreign Affairs and Andrew Johnson." in A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865–1881 : 85-120.

Journal articles

  • Fehrenbacher, Don E. "The making of a myth: Lincoln and the vice-presidential nomination in 1864." Civil War History 41.4 : 273-290.
  • Harris, William C. "Andrew Johnson's First 'Swing Around the Circle': His Northern Campaign of 1863." Civil War History 35.2 : 153-171.
  • Swanson, Ryan A. "Andrew Johnson and His Governors: An Examination of Failed Reconstruction Leadership." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 71.1 : 16-45.
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Older studies

Historiography

  • Beale, Howard K. "On Rewriting Reconstruction History." American Historical Review 45 :807-27.
  • Benedict, Michael Les. "A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson." Political Science Quarterly 88 pp:349-67.
  • Brown, Thomas J. Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States
  • Calhoun, Charles, et al. "Historians’ Forum: Reconstruction." Civil War History 61.3 : 281-301.
  • Castel, Albert. "Andrew Johnson: His Historiographical Rise and Fall." Mid-America 45 :175-84.
  • Cox, John H., and Cox, LaWanda. "Negro Suffrage and GOP Politics: The Problems of Motivation in Reconstruction Historiography." Journal of Southern History 33 :303-30.
  • Curry, Richard 0. "The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877: A Critical Overview of Recent Trends and Interpretations." Civil War History 20 :215-38.
  • Foner, Eric. The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction.
  • Kincaid, Larry. "Victims of Circumstance: An Interpretation of Changing Attitudes Toward Republican Policy Makers and Reconstruction." Journal of American History 52 :48-66.
  • Notaro, Carmen Anthony. "History of the Biographic Treatment of Andrew Johnson in the Twentieth Century." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 24.2 : 143-155.
  • Parfait, Claire. "Reconstruction Reconsidered: A Historiography of Reconstruction, From the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s." Études anglaises 4 : 440-454.
  • Prior, David. Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics.
  • Sefton, James E. "The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: A Century of Writing." Civil War History 14 (June 1968

Unpublished dissertations and theses

These are online at academic libraries.
  • Bowen, David Warren. "Andrew Johnson and the Negro." (University of Tennessee; Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1976. – published 1989 by University of Tennessee Press
  • Hager, Paul Alcott. "Andrew Johnson Of East Tennessee." (Johns Hopkins University; Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1975. ; detailed biography from birth to 1863.
  • Halperin, Bernard Seymour. "Andrew Johnson, The Radicals, and the Negro, 1865-1866" (Florida State University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1966..
  • Hardison, Edwin T. "In the Toils of War: Andrew Johnson and the Federal Occupation of Tennessee, 1862-1865" (University of Tennessee; Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1981..
  • Hayes, Merwyn Alfred. "The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial: A Case Study in Argumentation" (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1966..
  • McGuire, Tom. "Andrew Johnson and the northern revolution" (PhD thesis, Columbia University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2007. , on his battles with Radical Republicans.
  • O'Brien, John J., III. "The Mechanic Statesman and the Military Chieftain: Andrew Johnson, William B. Campbell and the Meaning of Liberty and Union in Antebellum Tennessee" (Saint Louis University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. .
  • Ortiz-Garcia, Angel Luis. "Andrew Johnson's Veto of the First Reconstruction Act" (Carnegie Mellon University; Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1970. .
  • Wedge, Lucius. "Andrew Johnson and the ministers of Nashville: A study in the relationship between war, politics, and morality" (University of Akron, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. .

Primary sources

Papers of Andrew Johnson
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Family and character qualities

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Selected newspaper and magazine articles