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Video: Anti-Slavery Politics in the Antebellum Era from CUNY Conference on Abolitionists
This is the third video in a series on the Abolition Movement that was held at CUNY back in 2014. This panel looked at the…
Brenda Wineapple: Salmon Chase Not a Good Role Model for Chief Justice During Impeachment Trial
Brenda Wineapple has been the most-quoted historian of the month. Her recent book The Impeachers tells the story of the Andrew Johnson impeachment and she…
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 Trial should look like. There had been no witnesses examined by the House before it voted…
Oppose Salmon P. Chase “The High Priest of Negro Suffrage” for President June 1868
The cartoon above mocks the attempt by Tammany Hall Democrats to nominate the pro-civil rights Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Salmon P. Chase as…
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