The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...

‘Kill the last damned one:’ The Memphis Race Massacre Exactly one year after the end of the Civil War, on April 9, 1866, ...

The 14th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution ... appeared in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that then-President Andrew Johnson vetoed. Johnson wrote that the language in question ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union sympathizers in the Border States. Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate ...

Johnson decided that the Southern states were only required to swear fealty to the Union and incorporate the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, into their state constitutions -- all else was up ...