Bibliography of Andrew Johnson

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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.

{{see also|Bibliography of the Reconstruction era}}

Major

  • {{cite book|last=Castel|first= Albert E.|author-link=Albert E. Castel|title=The Presidency of Andrew Johnson|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year= 1979|isbn=9780700601905}}
  • {{cite book |last=Gordon-Reed

|first=Annette |author-link=Annette Gordon-Reed |title=Andrew Johnson |publisher=Times Books |year=2011 |isbn=978-0805069488}}

  • {{cite book|first=Eric L.|last=McKitrick| author-link=Eric McKitrick | title=Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction|year=1960|lccn=60005467 | oclc=1476846|publisher=University of Chicago Press}}
  • {{cite book|author-link=Hans L. Trefousse|last=Trefousse|first=Hans L.|title=Andrew Johnson: A Biography|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|year=1989|isbn=0393026736|lccn=88028295}}

Journal articles

  • {{cite journal|last=Bailey|first= Thomas A. |title=Why the United States Purchased Alaska|journal=Pacific Historical Review|volume= 3|issue=1 |year=1934|pages= 39–49 |doi= 10.2307/3633456 |jstor= 3633456 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3633456|url-access=subscription}}
  • 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. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/420483/summary excerpt]
  • {{Cite journal |last=Rothera |first=Evan |date=2020-01-27 |title="Moses in Retirement": Andrew Johnson, 1869-1876 |url=https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol7/iss1/8 |journal=The Gettysburg Historical Journal |volume=7 |issue=1 |issn=2327-3917}}
  • Swanson, Ryan A. "Andrew Johnson and His Governors: An Examination of Failed Reconstruction Leadership." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 71.1 (2012): 16-45. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42628235 online]
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Rable |first1=George C. |author-link=George C. Rable |date=1973 |title=Anatomy of a Unionist: Andrew Johnson in the Secession Crisis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42623407 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=332–354 |jstor=42623407}}

Older studies

  • Beale, Howard K. The Critical Year. A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (1930). {{ISBN|0-8044-1085-2}}
  • DeWitt, D. M. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (1903).
  • {{cite book |last=DuBois |first=W.E.B. |title=Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1888 |publisher=Russell & Russell |year=1935 |location=New York |language=en-us |chapter=Transubstantiation of a Poor White |author-link=W.E.B. DuBois |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/transubstantiation-of-a-poor-white/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive}}
  • Dunning, W. A. [https://archive.org/details/essaysoncivilwa05dunngoog Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction] (New York, 1898) [OUTDATED]
  • Dunning, W. A. Reconstruction, Political and Economic (New York, 1907) [OUTDATED]
  • {{Cite book |last=Hall |first=Clifton Rumery |title=Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee |date=1916 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |lccn=16021420 | oclc=739980 |ol=6591007M |language=en-us}}
  • {{cite book |last=Milton |first=George Fort |author-link=George Fort Milton Jr. |title=The Age of Hate: Andrew Johnson and the Radicals |year=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. [https://archive.org/details/historyunitedst07schogoog 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). {{ISBN|0-403-01231-7}} [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.
  • {{cite book|isbn=978-1444339284 |title=A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881 |last1=Frantz |first1=Edward O. |year= 2014 | publisher=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.
  • {{cite thesis |last=Lenihan |first=Mary Ruth Logan |title=Reputation and history: Andrew Johnson's historiographical rise and fall |year=1986 |id={{ProQuest|EP36186}} |url=https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/3408 |publisher=University of Montana |degree=Master of Arts |url-access=}}
  • {{cite thesis |last=Miller |first=Zachary A. |title=False Idol: The Memory of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction in Greeneville, Tennessee 1869-2022 |id=Paper 4096 |url=https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/4096 |publisher=Eastern Tennessee State University |date=August 2022 |degree=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. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42622811 online]
  • Parfait, Claire. "Reconstruction Reconsidered: A Historiography of Reconstruction, From the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s." Études anglaises 4 (2009): 440-454. [https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2009-4-page-440.htm 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}}.
  • {{cite thesis |url=https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/32360/acthesis821.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=The Resurrection of Andrew Johnson: His Return to Tennessee Politics |first=Aaron Scott |last=Crawford |publisher=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of History |degree=Master of Arts|

date=2002-05-02 |location=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. {{ProQuest|3671127}}.

Primary sources

  • Papers of Andrew Johnson (16 volumes, U of Tennessee Press) [https://utpress.org/papers-of-andrew-johnson/# listing of published volumes]
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=iNv4TroT2UcC&dq=Johnson,+Andrew+Papers&pg=PR11 vol 10 online 1866]
  • "Johnson, Andrew Papers (1846-1875)" [http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/131.pdf finding aid to manuscripts at Tennessee State Library and Archives.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722004008/http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/131.pdf |date=2013-07-22 }}
  • {{Citation |title=Governor Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) Papers 1853-1857 (1846-1875) |url=http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp18.pdf |publisher=Tennessee State Library and Archives |place=Nashville, Tennessee |access-date=2015-03-06 |archive-date=2013-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722001044/http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp18.pdf |url-status=dead }}
  • {{Citation|title=Papers of (Military) Governor Andrew Johnson 1862–1865|url=http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp20.pdf|publisher=Tennessee State Library and Archives|place=Nashville, Tennessee|access-date=2015-03-06|archive-date=2013-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721223215/http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp20.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Family and character qualities

  • {{Cite journal |last=Barber |first=James D. |date=1968 |title=Adult Identity and Presidential Style: The Rhetorical Emphasis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20023846 |journal=Daedalus |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=938–968 |issn=0011-5266}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Bergeron |first=Paul H. |date=2001 |title=Robert Johnson: The President's Troubled and Troubling Son |url= |location=Knoxville, TN |publisher=East Tennessee Historical Society |volume=73 |pages=1–22 |issn=1058-2126 |oclc=760067571 |journal=Journal of East Tennessee History}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Browne |first=Stephen Howard |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/174/monograph/book/2701 |title=Before the Rhetorical Presidency |date=2008 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-60344-626-6 |editor-last=Medhurst |editor-first=Martin J. |location=College Station |pages=194–212 |chapter=Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Character |access-date=2023-07-30 |url-access=subscription |via=Project MUSE}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=DeWitt |first=John H. |date=1968 |title=Andrew Johnson and the Hermit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42622986 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=50–61 |issn=0040-3261}}
  • {{cite book |last=Holloway |first=Laura C. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075966923&view=1up&seq=641 |title=The Ladies of the White House |publisher=United States Pub. Co. |year=1871 |location=New York |pages=584–649 |chapter=Eliza Johnson, Martha Patterson, Mary Stover |language=en-us |lccn=04013417 |oclc=681133673 |ol=13503123M |author-link=Laura Carter Holloway |via=HathiTrust (New York Public Library copy) |ol-access=free}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Lawing |first=Hugh A. |date=1961 |title=Andrew Johnson National Monument |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=103–119 |jstor=42621527 |issn=0040-3261 | language=en-us}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Muir |first=Andrew Forest |date=1956 |title=William P. Johnson, Southern Proletarian and Unionist |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42621309 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=330–338 |jstor=42621309 |issn=0040-3261}}

Selected newspaper and magazine articles

  • {{Cite magazine |last=Moore |first=John Trotwood |author-link=John Trotwood Moore |date=1929-03-30 |title=Andrew Johnson—The Rail-Splitter's Running Mate |magazine=Saturday Evening Post |volume=201 |issue=39 |pages=24–25, 162, 165, 166, 169}} [OUTDATED]{{Cite web |last=Wozniak |first=Jim |date=2022-05-25 |title=Lecture series at Tusculum University in June will discuss three important figures in East Tennessee history :: Tusculum University |url=https://www3.tusculum.edu/news/news/2022/lecture-series-at-tusculum-university-in-june-will-discuss-three-important-figures-in-east-tennessee-history/ |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY NEWS |language=en-US}}

See also

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