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In 1876 the Senate Tried a Former Sec. of War’s Impeachment Trial Even Though He Left Office Months Before

During Reconstruction, President Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of War was impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate AFTER he had resigned…

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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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Video Lecture: The Andrew Johnson Impeachment in Popular Culture

C-SPAN has an interesting lecture by Brook Thomas of UC Irvine on the depictions of the Johnson Impeachment during the first 60 years of the…

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