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…
Gen. Robert Toombs: Reconstruction Is “Subjection of the Caucasian to the African and the Scalawag” Sept. 1868
Robert Toombs was an important political and military leader of the Confederacy. A pre-war Whig, he became a Democrat. Here is a report on a…
The Sergeant-at-Arms Called Out Three Times for Andrew Johnson-The Impeachment Trial Begins
On March 13, 1868 the trial of Andrew Johnson formally opened in the Senate. The Sergeant at Arms called out the name of the accused…
Nick Sacco Discusses Using Cartoons to Explore Reconstruction History
Our friend Nick Sacco has an interesting article up today at the blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era. Nick says that American…
It Appears that Kevin Levin is Setting the Agenda for the Sons of Confederate Veterans Sending them Searching for Black Confederates
Question: Why did the Confederacy lose the war? Answer: Too many flag bearers, too few muskets. Historian Kevin Levin appears to be setting the agenda…
Setting the Rules for the First-Ever Senate Presidential Impeachment Trial Amid Multiple Conflicts of Interest
No one knew in 1868 what a Senate Impeachment TrialĀ should look like. There had been no witnesses examined by the House before it voted…
Museum of the Cape Fear to Hold “Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz Bowl”
North Carolina’s Museum of the Cape Fear has been hosting a “Civil War Quiz Bowl” for seventeen years, but last year it was renamed the…
Kate Masur & Greg Downs Named Co-Editors of Journal of the Civil War Era
The respected Journal of the Civil War Era has announced the appointment of new co-editors for the journal. The two, Greg Downs and Kate Masur…