The New York Herald of Saturday, April 15, 1865, carried an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

The cartoon portrays Andrew Johnson as the evil Iago plotting against the heroic and innocent Othello, shown as a wounded black Union veteran being denied his place in American political life.

Vice President Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) was thrust into the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination but when he attempted to run as a Democrat in 1868, Johnson faced biting musical satires ridiculing him for switching parties and attacking his background and character.

Search PPOC using the subject heading Johnson, Andrew, 1809-1875 to find digital images related to Grant such as prints, photographs, and political cartoons. Search all text fields in PPOC using the phrase Ulysses Grant to locate additional images.

The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 photographs primarily of architectural subjects, including photographs of Andrew Johnson's house in Greeneville, Tennessee.

The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes. Included in this collection is documentation of Andrew Johnson's house in Greeneville, Tennessee.

This guide presents portraits of U.S. presidents and first ladies, including images of Andrew Johnson and Eliza McCardle Johnson

The Library of Congress digital collections include a wide variety of primary source materials documenting presidential inaugurations, including Andrew Johnson taking the oath of office on April 15, 1865.

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 29, 1808.

Shortly after 10 P.M. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.

On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.

On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors," as he was charged under the eleventh article of impeachment.

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the United States continued to tumble through tumultuous times. President Andrew Johnson was failing to heal the nation's wounds, and the bitter political environment culminated in an impeachment trial. David O. Stewart discussed Johnson's 1868 trial, when once again the nation's fate hung in the balance.