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

Major

Scholarly and popular studies

  • Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson] (1999). ISBN 0-393-31982-2
  • Boulard, Garry. The Swing Around the Circle—Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency (2008) ISBN 978-1-4401-0239-4
  • Bowen, David Warren (1989). Andrew Johnson and the Negro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-584-4.
  • Brabson, Fay Warrington (1972). Andrew Johnson: a life in pursuit of the right course, 1808–1875: the seventeenth President of the United States. Durham, N.C.: Seeman Printery. LCCN 77151079. OCLC 590545. OL 4578789M.
  • 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 (2014) pp: 214-234.
  • Castel, Albert E. "Andrew Johnson". In Graff, Henry (ed.). The Presidents: A Reference History (7th ed. 2002). pp. 225–239
  • Cimprich, John (2012) [1985]. Slavery's End in Tennessee. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817380830.
  • Cox, LaWanda C. and John Henry Cox. Politics, principle, and prejudice, 1865-1866: dilemma of Reconstruction America (Free Press, 1963).
  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (HarperCollins, 1988), 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 (2014): 62-84.
  • Hatfield, Mark O.; with the Senate Historical Office (1997). Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993 (PDF). Washington: U.S. Govt. Printing Office. pp. 213–219., popular
  • Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage (Harper & Brothers, 1956), popular
  • Levine, Robert S. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (2021) excerpt
  • Maslowski, Peter (1978). Treason Must Be Made Odious: Military Occupation and Wartime Reconstruction in Nashville, Tennessee, 1862–65. Millwood, N.Y: KTO Press. ISBN 978-0-527-62185-8. LCCN 78016799. OCLC 4004346.
  • Mantell, Martin E. Johnson, Grant, and the Politics of Reconstruction (1973)
  • Means, Howard. The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days That Changed the Nation. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)
  • Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R.; Zuczek, Richard (2001). Andrew Johnson: a biographical companion. ABC-CLIO biographical companions. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-030-7.
  • Simpson, Brooks D. (1991). Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780700608966.
  • Sledge, James L. III. "Johnson, Andrew," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (2000)
  • Stewart, David O. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy. (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
  • Van Deusen, Glyndon. William Henry Seward (Oxford University Press, 1967), the Secretary of State.
  • Wineapple, Brenda. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. New York: Random House (2019).
  • Zuczek, Richard. "Foreign Affairs and Andrew Johnson." in A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865–1881 (2014): 85-120.

Journal articles

Older studies

Historiography

  • Beale, Howard K. "On Rewriting Reconstruction History." American Historical Review 45 (July 1940):807-27.
  • Benedict, Michael Les. "A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson." Political Science Quarterly 88 (September 1973) pp:349-67.
  • Brown, Thomas J. Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States (Oxford University Press. 2006)
  • Calhoun, Charles, et al. "Historians’ Forum: Reconstruction." Civil War History 61.3 (2015): 281-301.
  • Castel, Albert. "Andrew Johnson: His Historiographical Rise and Fall." Mid-America 45 (July 1963):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 (August 1967):303-30.
  • Curry, Richard 0. "The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877: A Critical Overview of Recent Trends and Interpretations." Civil War History 20 (September 1974):215-38.
  • Frantz, Edward O. (2014). A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1444339284.
  • Foner, Eric. The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction (University Press of Kentucky, 2013).
  • Kincaid, Larry. "Victims of Circumstance: An Interpretation of Changing Attitudes Toward Republican Policy Makers and Reconstruction." Journal of American History 52 (June 1970):48-66.
  • Lenihan, Mary Ruth Logan (1986). Reputation and history: Andrew Johnson's historiographical rise and fall (Master of Arts thesis). University of Montana. ProQuest EP36186.
  • Miller, Zachary A. (August 2022). False Idol: The Memory of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction in Greeneville, Tennessee 1869-2022 (Master of Arts thesis). Eastern Tennessee State University. Paper 4096.
  • Notaro, Carmen Anthony. "History of the Biographic Treatment of Andrew Johnson in the Twentieth Century." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 24.2 (1965): 143-155. online
  • Parfait, Claire. "Reconstruction Reconsidered: A Historiography of Reconstruction, From the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s." Études anglaises 4 (2009): 440-454. online
  • Prior, David. Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics (LSU Press, 2019).
  • Sefton, James E. "The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: A Century of Writing." Civil War History 14 (June 1968}:120-47.
  • Thomas, Brook. "The unfinished task of grounding reconstruction's promise." Journal of the Civil War Era 7.1 (2017): 16-38.
  • Weisberger, Bernard A. "The Dark and Bloody Ground of Reconstruction Historiography." Journal of Southern History 25 (November 1959):427-47.

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. ProQuest 7710753 – published 1989 by University of Tennessee Press ISBN 978-0870495847
  • Hager, Paul Alcott. "Andrew Johnson Of East Tennessee." (Johns Hopkins University; Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1975. ProQuest 7821961; 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. ProQuest 6708569.
  • 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. ProQuest 8208968.
  • Hayes, Merwyn Alfred. "The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial: A Case Study in Argumentation" (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1966. ProQuest 6607749.
  • McGuire, Tom. "Andrew Johnson and the northern revolution" (PhD thesis, Columbia University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2007. ProQuest 3266640, 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. ProQuest 10277975.
  • Ortiz-Garcia, Angel Luis. "Andrew Johnson's Veto of the First Reconstruction Act" (Carnegie Mellon University; Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1970. ProQuest 7119112.
  • Crawford, Aaron Scott (2002-05-02). The Resurrection of Andrew Johnson: His Return to Tennessee Politics (PDF) (Master of Arts thesis). Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of History.
  • 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. ProQuest 3671127.

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Family and character qualities

Selected newspaper and magazine articles

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