For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

The mood and tenor in Washington, according to David Miller DeWitt’s The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, was that of a city under siege. “The dominant part of the nation seemed to ...

“Sex and marriage were unavoidable issues at Andrew’s trial,” Justice Thomas wrote ... state court’s ruling in 2007, Judge Arlene Johnson, the only woman on the court at the time ...