Today, as in 1868, the Senate alone determines whether a president should be removed from office through the impeachment process. It is the citizenry, however, who will pass judgment on the ...

That’s “Impeachment Polka,” written in 1868 by the composer Charles Dupee Blake. It’s an odd artifact of the moment but only in the abstract — only in the way that a mass-produced button ...

I wrote that the 1868 impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson implicated the freedom of speech. At the time, I didn't dig through the records, but I presumed that Johnson's acquittal was based, at ...

As the impeachment inquiry of Trump unfolds, Johnson, […] The president traveled the country, fanning racial animus. He viewed the Congress with disdain.

Impeachment in 1868 was not a story of sacred truths triumphing over politics. To the contrary, impeachment was politics — power politics of an especially risky kind.

“That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the 21st day of February, 1868, unmindful of the high duties of his office, his oath of office and of the requirement of the Cons… ...

The Constitution does not provide procedural guidelines for how an impeachment trial is to be conducted—so the senators of 1868 had to figure it out as they went.

GROTON — “So mighty is the machinery of the Government that the weight of the President’s hand upon the central lever affects the fortune of every citizen,” the congressman … ...

Johnson's impeachment trial started on March 4, 1868, and continued for approximately 11 weeks. In the end, the Senate voted 35-19 to convict Johnson of impeachment. However, ...

The president traveled the country, fanning racial animus. He viewed the Congress with disdain. He also tried to undo some of the most important achievements of his predecessor, using executive ...