Confederate surrender at appomattox and the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln in this period of uncertainty americans wondered how the new president Andrew Johnson would lead the divided nation many especially in africanamericans were hopeful that johnson would actively promote cause of black equality. Black leaders. However became disillusioned with johnson after a dramatic meeting with the president at the white house Frederick Douglass attack johnsons policies in a number of lectures across the country. Johnsons conflict with congress over reconstruction eventually led to his impeachment. Within the records of the National Archives is the resolution to impeach johnson written on a scrap of paper and introduced in the us house of representatives of february 21st, 1868. Three days later the house voted 128 to 47 to adopt the rest of resolution. In the failed promise Robert S Levine portrays the conflicts that brought Frederick Douglass and the wider black community to reject
Of both the miller and the university of Virginia Press welcome to todays im steve cohen. I am a nonresident senior fellow with the Miller Center, the scholar in residence at the History Channel and a of history at the university of oklahoma. Many of us, when we about the american presidency, we think people like lincoln and tr and fdr and we think about the 20th century as being the defining century and defining and determining the president ial power. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the presidency and the american state leadership and decision in the adams grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of Virginia Press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science at Saint University in new york. He earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the Brookings Institution and as
University of Virginia Press welcome to todays im steve cohen. I am a nonresident senior fellow with the Miller Center, the scholar in residence at the History Channel and a of history at the university of oklahoma. Many of us, when we about the american presidency, we think people like lincoln and tr and fdr and we think about the 20th century as being the defining century and defining and determining the president ial power. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the presidency and the american state leadership and decision in the adams grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of Virginia Press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science at Saint University in new york. He earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the Brookings Institution and as an assistant professor in t
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