On February 24, 1868, something extraordinary happened in the U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew ...
Johnson's impeachment in 1868 was the culmination of a bitter dispute between the president and the Republican-controlled House over Reconstruction following the Civil War. The specific trigger for ...
Bad beginnings : Spring 1865 -- President Johnson : April 1865 -- Land of revolution : November 1865 -- The opposition gathers : December 1865 -- A government divided against itself : January-June ...
Washington Conservatory fellow Michael Adcock performs the "Impeachment Polka," composed in 1868 by Charles D. Blake for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
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