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After He Was Fired By Johnson, Stanton Stayed in Office While His Replacement Was Arrested

After War Secretary Stanton was fired by President Johnson on Feb. 21, 1868, he decided to follow Congressman Thad Steven’s advice. The very ill Radical…

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Feb. 21, 1868 Pres. Johnson Fires Sec. of War Stanton Setting Off Impeachment Crisis

On February 21, 1868, President Andrew Johnson removed Edwin Stanton from office as the Secretary of War in violation of the Tenure of Office Act….

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January 13 1868 The Senate Refuses Consent to Johnson’s Removal of War Sec. Stanton

In 1867 Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act which required the president to seek the consent of the Senate prior to dismissing any government…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“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….

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