Month: January 2020
Ben Butler Gives the Opening Prosecution Argument in the Senate Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson
On March 30, 1868, the trial in the Senate of Andrew Johnson began. The opening statement for the prosecution was delivered by Congressman Ben Butler,…
The “House Managers”: Prosecuting the Johnson Impeachment
On March 5, 1868 the seven House Managers appointed to prosecute the case for removal appeared in the Senate to begin the impeachment trial of…
The Origin of the “Color Line” Authorizing Racial Discrimination Was in Slavery-Frederick Douglass 1881
Frederick Douglass wrote about the origin of the “Color Line” that separated the races and legislated inequality in 1881. The Color Line was not a…
Collection of Frederick Douglass Newspapers from Abolition to Reconstruction Now Available Online.
The Library of Congress announced today that it has made available over 500 issues of rare newspapers published by Frederick Douglas during both the pre-Civil…
New Pavilion to Victims of Lynching from 1865 to 1877 Opened in Montgomery, Ala.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EIJ) has attracted a lot of attention over the last several years for its marking of lynching sites throughout the United…
President Johnson’s Dream Team of Defense Lawyers Biggest Enemy? A Client Who Would Not Shut Up!
On March 13, 1865, the public saw the legal team defending President Johnson for the first time. The five prominent attorneys included a former Justice…
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Explains Why the 14th Amendment Is Necessary for Reconstruction 1867
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain became Governor of Maine on January 2, 1867. He had risen to prominence as a heroic Union officer at Gettysburg. In his…
Pres. Johnson Answered the Articles of Impeachment on March 23, 1868-Deny It All!
After being served with notice that he would be tried by the Senate on the Articles of Impeachment voted by the House, President Johnson sent…
Why Does Alan Dershowitz Wrongly Say that Previous Impeachments Have Not Had Witnesses? Johnson’s Definitely Did
When asked about the possibility that there will be no witnesses at the Senate trial of Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz said today on NPR that…
Before the Republican Wide Awakes There Were the Know Nothing Wide Awakes
I write pretty extensively on another blog about immigrants during the Civil War. One of my articles is about the anti-immigrant Know Nothings of the…
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