Category: Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson Breaks With His Generals: Grant and Sherman on Guard January 1868
In December 1867, President Andrew Johnson sent a message to Congress explaining his reasons for suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in apparent defiance of…
President Johnson Explains Why He Suspended Sec. of War Stanton Setting Off Constitutional Crisis Dec. 1867
On August 12, 1867, President Andrew Johnson suspended Sec. of War Edwin Stanton. This began a chain of events that would culminate in Johnson’s impeachment….
December 28, 1867 Pres. Johnson Removes Pope and Ord from Reconstruction Commands
In an attempt to undercut the protection of the rights of African Americans in the South, President Johnson removed General John Pope from command of…
NPR’s “On the Media” Interviews Historian Brenda Wineapple About the Andrew Johnson Impeachment
National Public Radio’s popular show On the Media focuses on the Andrew Johnson Impeachment this week. It is timely for obvious reasons. Historian Brenda Wineapple…
New Republic on the Johnson Impeachment and the Modern Sitch
The New Republic magazine has the latest entry in the slew of articles comparing the modern impeachment inquiry to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. This…
Historian James Oakes Writes on Recent Works by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates
Historian James Oakes writes about recent books, and a PBS documentry from Henry Louis Gates and Eric Foner in this week’s New York Review of…
Historian Manisha Sinha Sees Parallels Between Andy Johnson and Donald Trump
With the impeachment inquiry proceeding in modern Washington, pundits have been raising the examples of earlier impeachments. Nixon, Clinton, and Andrew Johnson are regularly invoked…
“The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” By Brenda Wineapple Makes the NY Times’s Notable Books of 2019 List
The New York Times has released its prestigious list of the “100 Notable Books” of 2019 and several Reconstruction Era-related books are on the list….
March 3, 1867 Tenure of Office Act Passed Setting the Legal Basis for the Johnson Impeachment
On March 3, 1867 Congress enacted the Tenure of Office Act over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act restricted the president’s ability to…
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory Downs
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory Downs published by Harvard University Press (2015) Hardcover $32.95 Kindle $18.12. Before the 1960s, it…
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