We kick off Season 2 by chronicling the life of Andrew Johnson, the uneducated tailor who rose to power on the strength of his populist stump speeches and his advocacy for the common (white) man. As the only Southern Democrat Senator to remain loyal to the Union during the Civil War, he was named Lincoln's vice presidential running mate in 1864 to broaden the ticket's appeal. When Lincoln's assassination coincides with the war's end, Johnson is thrust into the presidency and tasked with the Reconstruction of a divided nation. Will he carry Lincoln's mantle and preserve the Civil War's hard-won gains or will an unexpected Southern president enable an unrepentant South to win the peace?
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| Manhood: How Lost, How Restored – Columbia Democrat and Star of the North (Bloomsburg, PA) – September 19, 1866 |
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| Laughlin’s Infant Cordial – The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV) – April 30, 1868 |
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| Wet Nurse or Cow Owner Wanted – New York Daily Herald (New York, NY) – June 3, 1867 |
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| Moyer’s Drug Store – Columbia Democrat and Star of the North (Bloomsburg, PA) – September 19, 1866 |
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| Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer – The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV) – April 30, 1868 |
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Chastellar’s Hair Exterminator – Chicago Evening Post (Chicago, IL) – April 12, 1867 |
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| Dr. Hastings Hall Treats Venereal Diseases – San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA) – September 30, 1865 |
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| Sheriff Jordan’s Wife Stolen by Isaac Mize – The Tennessean (Nashville, TN) – April 7, 1868 |
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| Isaac Mize and Mrs. Jordan Arrested – Nashville Union and American (Nashville, TN) – April 9, 1868 |
