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WaPo Reviews Robert Levine’s “The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson”
This is the second review by a major newspaper this week of Robert S. Levine’s The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of…
New York Times Reviews The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine
This week, the New York Times reviewed The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine from W.W….
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…
Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executed
The Washington Post has an article speculating that if Andrew Johnson had been removed from office by the Senate at the conclusion of his impeachment…
General John Logan Demands that Seven Republican Senators Who Voted Against Impeachment Be Expelled from Party
At the same time that the Johnson Impeachment was going on, Republicans were assembling in Chicago for their National Convention. On May 19, 1868 General…
Historian Stephanie McCurry on the Uses of the Johnson Impeachment
Stephanie McCurry, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, has an article on the effects of the failed prosecution of Andrew…
The Senate Votes to Acquit Pres. Johnson on Article 11 of the Articles of Impeachment by One Vote
On May 16, 1868, the Senate voted on whether to convict President Andrew Johnson on the 11th Article of Impeachment. All of the Democrats and…
Video: Historian Elizabeth Varon Discusses the Johnson Impeachment
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia hosted a discussion of the Johnson Impeachment back in 2001. Elizabeth Varon is the historian who held…
Growing Anticipation of a Verdict in Johnson Impeachment Trial-NY Times Predicts Outcome May 11, 1868
The May 11, 1868 NY Times predicted the outcome of the vote in the Senate Trial of Andrew Johnson:
The Impeachment Verdict Will Be Known Immediately Throughout the Land Via Telegraph-May 11, 1868
The miracle of the telegraph would make known the Senate’s verdict in the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson instantaneously. Travelling at the speed of lightning,…
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