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…
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…