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Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is a Harvard professor of law and history and biographer of Andrew Johnson. A MacArthur Fellow, Gordon-Reed received the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.

Tickets to the Johnson impeachment trial were color-coded to indicate dates for the proceedings, which lasted more than two months.

The Fight Over Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Was a Fight for the Future of the United States

The biggest show in Washington 150 years ago was the trial against the President of the United States