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). Boulard, Garry. The Swing Around the Circle—Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency (2008)

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

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. , 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

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) Orr, Robert (2005). President Andrew Johnson of Greeneville, Tennessee. Knoxville: Tennessee Valley Publishing. ISBN 9781932604153.

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

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

Swanson, Ryan A. "Andrew Johnson and His Governors: An Examination of Failed Reconstruction Leadership." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 71.1 (2012): 16-45. online

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).

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]

[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.

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.

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. .

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

Selected newspaper and magazine articles [OUTDATED]

See also List of bibliographies of U.S. presidents List of bibliographies on American history

References

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