Category: Andrew Johnson
The Assault on Civil Rights and Andy Johnson’s Vetoes: Background to the Johnson Impeachment
High school history class in my youth portrayed the Johnson Impeachment as stemming from petulant Congressional Radicals enraged at the president because he removed Secretary…
Andrew Johnson’s Trial: The Constitution on Impeachment-Primary Sources & Discussion
This is the third installment of my new series on the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. I want to use this post for primary sources related…
The Johnson Impeachment Was Huge: An Interview With Brenda Wineapple
The New Yorker recently published an interview with the author of a new book on the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Brenda Wineapple in The Impeachers:…
Impeaching Johnson: Why Impeach a President Who Won’t Be Removed? New Series from The Reconstruction Blog
Andrew Johnson, one of our worst presidents, has rarely gotten as much press as he is receiving right now. With an impeachment inquiry under way…
Historian Greg Downs Says that Impeachment by House Can Be Effective Even if President Is Not Removed
Historian Greg Downs discusses the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 as a precedent for the current impeachment controversy. His article in the Washington Post…
Book Review: The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple
The Impeachers:The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple published by Random House (2019) 576 pp. Hardcover $32.00,…
Would Reconstruction Have Been Different if Lincoln Had Lived? Historians Weigh In
The scholarly journal Civil War History had a Historians Forum on Reconstruction in the September 2015 issue. I want to point to one of the…
Carl Schurz Warned That a “System of Terrorism” Was Taking Hold in the Post-War South in 1865
Carl Schurz arrived in South Carolina in the middle of July, 1865. He had been sent by new president Andrew Johnson to investigate the condition…
German General Carl Schurz Begins His Investigation of the Post-War South
Union General Carl Schurz began his inspection tour of the South just a month after the last Confederate forces surrendered. Schurz, a German refugee, embarked…
Podcast: Chris Hayes Interviews Biographer Brenda Wineapple on the Andrew Johnson Impeachment
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviews author Brenda Wineapple on the Andrew Johnson impeachment. Wineapple is the author of the new book The Impeachers: The Trial of…
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