Education
Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University.
His main expertise was the American Civil War, with a focus on the political and economic motives of those who sought independence in the form of a new Confederacy. Johnson was born in 1927 in Charleston, West Virginia. He was raised in Richmond, Virginia.
He served in the Naval Reserve from 1945-1946 and received his Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1955.
In November, 1996, Johnson was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.