Bibliography of Andrew Johnson explained

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

See also: Bibliography of the Reconstruction era.

Major

• Book: Castel, Albert E.. Albert E. Castel. The Presidency of Andrew Johnson. University Press of Kansas. 1979. 9780700601905.
• Book: Gordon-Reed , Annette . Annette Gordon-Reed . Andrew Johnson . Times Books . 2011 . 978-0805069488.
• Book: McKitrick, Eric L.. Eric McKitrick . Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. 1960. 60005467 . 1476846. University of Chicago Press.
• Book: Trefousse, Hans L.. Hans L. Trefousse. Andrew Johnson: A Biography. W.W. Norton & Company. 1989. 0393026736. 88028295.

Scholarly and popular studies

• Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson] (1999).
• Boulard, Garry. The Swing Around the Circle—Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency (2008)
• Book: 0-87049-584-4 . Andrew Johnson and the Negro . Bowen . David Warren . University of Tennessee Press. Knoxville. 1989 .
• Book: Brabson, Fay Warrington . Fay W. Brabson . Andrew Johnson: a life in pursuit of the right course, 1808–1875: the seventeenth President of the United States . Seeman Printery . 1972 . Durham, N.C. . 77151079 . 590545 . 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
• Book: Cimprich, John . Slavery's End in Tennessee . 2012 . University of Alabama Press . 9780817380830 . 1985.
• 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.
• Book: Mark Hatfield

. Hatfield . Mark O. . Mark Hatfield . with the Senate Historical Office . Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993 . Washington . U.S. Govt. Printing Office . 1997 . 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
• Book: Maslowski, Peter . Treason Must Be Made Odious: Military Occupation and Wartime Reconstruction in Nashville, Tennessee, 1862–65 . KTO Press . 1978 . 978-0-527-62185-8 . Millwood, N.Y . en-us . 78016799 . 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)
• Book: Schroeder-Lein . Glenna R. . Andrew Johnson: a biographical companion . Zuczek . Richard . 2001 . ABC-CLIO . 978-1-57607-030-7 . ABC-CLIO biographical companions . Santa Barbara, Calif..
• Book: Simpson, Brooks D. . Brooks D. Simpson . 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 . 1991 . Simpson91 . 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

• Bailey. Thomas A. . Why the United States Purchased Alaska. Pacific Historical Review. 3. 1 . 1934. 39–49 . 10.2307/3633456 . 3633456 .
• Fehrenbacher, Don E. "The making of a myth: Lincoln and the vice-presidential nomination in 1864." Civil War History 41.4 (1995): 273-290.
• Harris, William C. "Andrew Johnson's First 'Swing Around the Circle': His Northern Campaign of 1863." Civil War History 35.2 (1989): 153-171. excerpt
• Rothera . Evan . 2020-01-27 . "Moses in Retirement": Andrew Johnson, 1869-1876 . The Gettysburg Historical Journal . 7 . 1 . 2327-3917.
• Swanson, Ryan A. "Andrew Johnson and His Governors: An Examination of Failed Reconstruction Leadership." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 71.1 (2012): 16-45. online
• Rable . George C. . George C. Rable . 1973 . Anatomy of a Unionist: Andrew Johnson in the Secession Crisis . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 32 . 4 . 332–354 . 42623407.

Older studies

• Beale, Howard K. The Critical Year. A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (1930).
• DeWitt, D. M. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (1903).
• Book: DuBois, W.E.B. . . Russell & Russell . 1935 . New York . en-us . Transubstantiation of a Poor White . W.E.B. DuBois . https://archive.org/details/transubstantiation-of-a-poor-white/mode/2up . Internet Archive.
• Dunning, W. A. Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction (New York, 1898) [OUTDATED]
• Dunning, W. A. Reconstruction, Political and Economic (New York, 1907) [OUTDATED]
• Book: Hall, Clifton Rumery . Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee . 1916 . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 16021420 . 739980 . 6591007M . en-us.
• Book: Milton, George Fort . George Fort Milton Jr. . The Age of Hate: Andrew Johnson and the Radicals . 1930. [OUTDATED]
• Patton, James Welch. Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860–1869 (1934)
• Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume: 6. 1920. Pulitzer Prize.
• Schouler, James. History of the United States of America: Under the Constitution vol. 7. 1865–1877. The Reconstruction Period (1917)
• Stryker, Lloyd P. Andrew Johnson: A Study in Courage (1929). [OUTDATED]
• Winston, Robert W. Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot (1928) [OUTDATED]

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.
• Book: 978-1444339284 . A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881 . Frantz . Edward O. . 2014 . Wiley-Blackwell.
• 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 . Reputation and history: Andrew Johnson's historiographical rise and fall . 1986 . . University of Montana . Master of Arts .
• Miller . Zachary A. . False Idol: The Memory of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction in Greeneville, Tennessee 1869-2022 . Paper 4096 . Eastern Tennessee State University . August 2022 . Master of Arts .
• 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. – 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. .
• The Resurrection of Andrew Johnson: His Return to Tennessee Politics . Aaron Scott . Crawford . Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of History . Master of Arts. 2002-05-02 . Blacksburg, Virginia .
• 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 (16 volumes, U of Tennessee Press) listing of published volumes
  • vol 10 online 1866
• "Johnson, Andrew Papers (1846-1875)" finding aid to manuscripts at Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Family and character qualities

• Barber . James D. . 1968 . Adult Identity and Presidential Style: The Rhetorical Emphasis . Daedalus . 97 . 3 . 938–968 . 0011-5266.
• Bergeron . Paul H. . 2001 . Robert Johnson: The President's Troubled and Troubling Son . Knoxville, TN . East Tennessee Historical Society . 73 . 1–22 . 1058-2126 . 760067571 . Journal of East Tennessee History.
• Book: Browne, Stephen Howard . Before the Rhetorical Presidency . 2008 . Texas A&M University Press . 978-1-60344-626-6 . Medhurst . Martin J. . College Station . 194–212 . Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Character . 2023-07-30 . subscription . Project MUSE.
• DeWitt . John H. . 1968 . Andrew Johnson and the Hermit . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 27 . 1 . 50–61 . 0040-3261.
• Book: Holloway, Laura C. . The Ladies of the White House . United States Pub. Co. . 1871 . New York . 584–649 . Eliza Johnson, Martha Patterson, Mary Stover . en-us . 04013417 . 681133673 . 13503123M . Laura Carter Holloway . HathiTrust (New York Public Library copy) . free.
• Lawing . Hugh A. . 1961 . Andrew Johnson National Monument . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 20 . 2 . 103–119 . 42621527 . 0040-3261 . en-us.
• Muir . Andrew Forest . 1956 . William P. Johnson, Southern Proletarian and Unionist . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 15 . 4 . 330–338 . 42621309 . 0040-3261.

Selected newspaper and magazine articles

• Moore . John Trotwood . John Trotwood Moore . 1929-03-30 . Andrew Johnson—The Rail-Splitter's Running Mate . . 201 . 39 . 24–25, 162, 165, 166, 169. [OUTDATED]^[1]

See also

• List of bibliographies of U.S. presidents
• List of bibliographies on American history

External links

• Discussion with Annette Gordon-Reed on her book Andrew Johnson, February 8, 2011
• Library of Congress Andrew Johnson bibliography in support of Andrew Johnson Papers collection

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wozniak . Jim . 2022-05-25 . Lecture series at Tusculum University in June will discuss three important figures in East Tennessee history :: Tusculum University . 2023-12-30 . TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY NEWS . en-US.