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2020
The Impeachment Verdict Will Be Known Immediately Throughout the Land Via Telegraph-May 11, 1868original ↗
1 Feb 2020
After Both Sides Presented Their Cases For and Against Impeachment the Senate Went Into Secret Sessionoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2020
New Yorker Reviews a New History of an Old Slave Revolt and How It Helped End the International Slave Tradeoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2020
When John Bingham Gave His Impeachment Trial Closing Statement the Audience Burst into Applauseoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2020
Thad Stevens Too Sick to Deliver His Whole Closing Argument In Impeachment Trial Is Relieved by Ben Butleroriginal ↗
29 Jan 2020
Mark Twain: Thad Stevens Was “A Corpse that was Ready for the Shroud” When He Spoke for the Impeachment of Pres. Johnsonoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2020
April 21, 1868 A Southern Newspaper Assesses the Evidentiary Phase of the Johnson Impeachment Trialoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2020
The Fight Over Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Was a Fight for the Future of the United States Says Annette Gordon-Reedoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2020
Ben Butler Warns that Delaying Conclusion of the Impeachment Trial Plays Into the Hands of Ku Klux Klanoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2020
Brenda Wineapple: Salmon Chase Not a Good Role Model for Chief Justice During Impeachment Trialoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2020
25 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020
On the Third Day of Testimony in the Impeachment Trial Boredom Had Set In Among Spectatorsoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2020
The Second Day of Impeachment Testimony: Did the President Conspire to Use Force to Evict Stanton?original ↗
23 Jan 2020
Ben Butler Gives the Opening Prosecution Argument in the Senate Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnsonoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2020
The Origin of the “Color Line” Authorizing Racial Discrimination Was in Slavery-Frederick Douglass 1881original ↗
20 Jan 2020
Collection of Frederick Douglass Newspapers from Abolition to Reconstruction Now Available Online.original ↗
20 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020
President Johnson’s Dream Team of Defense Lawyers Biggest Enemy? A Client Who Would Not Shut Up!original ↗
19 Jan 2020
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Explains Why the 14th Amendment Is Necessary for Reconstruction 1867original ↗
19 Jan 2020
18 Jan 2020
Why Does Alan Dershowitz Wrongly Say that Previous Impeachments Have Not Had Witnesses? Johnson’s Definitely Didoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2020
Gen. Robert Toombs: Reconstruction Is “Subjection of the Caucasian to the African and the Scalawag” Sept. 1868original ↗
17 Jan 2020
The Sergeant-at-Arms Called Out Three Times for Andrew Johnson-The Impeachment Trial Beginsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2020
It Appears that Kevin Levin is Setting the Agenda for the Sons of Confederate Veterans Sending them Searching for Black Confederatesoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2020
Setting the Rules for the First-Ever Senate Presidential Impeachment Trial Amid Multiple Conflicts of Interestoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2020
March 4, 1868 the House of Representatives Serves the Johnson Articles of Impeachment on the Senateoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2020
Election of First African American to Serve in U.S. Senate to Be Commemorated in Mississippioriginal ↗
12 Jan 2020
Oregon Legislature Demands Its Senators Resign for Supporting Impeachment & Reconstruction Acts Dec. 1868original ↗
12 Jan 2020
Reconstruction Era Virginia Village of Willisville Settled by Freed Slaves Placed on National Register of Historic Placesoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2020
Congratulating Virginia for Rejecting Black Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment January 1867original ↗
9 Jan 2020
Book Review-Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019)original ↗
9 Jan 2020
“Of the structure of government…he is singularly and wonderfully ignorant” Gideon Welles on U.S. Grantoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020
Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Relief Work Among Liberated Former Slaves Near Savannah in 1866original ↗
5 Jan 2020
“The main reliance…must be upon the black population” Coming to terms with free Black labor 1868original ↗
4 Jan 2020
Atlantic Magazine Says “Six Degrees of Song of the South” One of the Best Podcasts of the Yearoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2020
Podcast Interview of Kevin M. Levin Author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth”original ↗
1 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020
2019
Charleston To Hold Its 153rd Annual Celebration of Emancipation Tonight and on New Year’s Dayoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2019
January 1 Was Celebrated in Black Communities as Emancipation Day, a Commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamationoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2019
Three Civil War/Reconstruction Era Films Make Smithsonian’s 10 Best History Movies of the Decadeoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2019
Book Review: Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Mattesonoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2019
Andrew Johnson Issues “Christmas Amnesty” Pardoning Former Confederates for Treason on Dec. 25, 1868original ↗
23 Dec 2019
“Why Little Women Endures” The Sesquicentennial of a Best Seller of the Reconstruction Eraoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2019
Miss Louisa May Alcott Publishes a Novel for Girls: Press Reacts to “Little Women” 1868 & 1869original ↗
21 Dec 2019
How German Refugee Thomas Nast Invented How Santa Claus Looks Today Back During the Civil War and Reconstructionoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019
Book Review: Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains By Steven E. Nashoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2019
Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian of Civil War and Reconstruction William S. McFeely Passes Awayoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2019
After He Was Fired By Johnson, Stanton Stayed in Office While His Replacement Was Arrestedoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019
Newly Digitalized Civil War and Reconstruction Era Newspapers from Georgia Available Free OnLineoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2019
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downsoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019
President Johnson Explains Why He Suspended Sec. of War Stanton Setting Off Constitutional Crisis Dec. 1867original ↗
10 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019
As Freedmen’s Bureau Was Closing at End of 1868, African Americans Asked for Protection Dec. 15, 1868original ↗
10 Dec 2019
Grant Advisor Horace Porter Reports on Political Violence in Arkansas in the Later Part of 1868original ↗
9 Dec 2019