Restoring the Union
From A Journey into Human History by Miranda Casturo
May 22, 2026 · 13 min · Season 3
About this episode
This episode discusses President Lincoln's efforts to reunify the nation and the subsequent actions of Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction.
President Lincoln worked to reach his goal of reunifying the nation quickly and proposed a lenient plan to reintegrate the Confederate states. After his murder in 1865, Lincoln’s vice president, Andrew Johnson, sought to reconstitute the Union quickly, pardoning Southerners en masse and providing Southern states with a clear path back to readmission. By 1866, Johnson announced the end of Reconstruction. Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed, however, and in the years ahead would put forth their own plan of Reconstruction. All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/16-1-restoring-the-union Welcome to A Journey into Human History. This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story. The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Access for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a Creative Common Sense production. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history--5860966/support .
People in this episode
Host: Miranda Casturo
Topics covered
- Reconstruction
- Civil War
- American History
- Presidential Policies
- Radical Republicans
Keywords
- Lincoln
- Johnson
- Reconstruction
- Civil War
- Radical Republicans
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Organizations: OpenStax, Creative Commons, Spreaker
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