From We’re History by Todd Arrington: ne hundred and fifty years ago today, on March 13, 1868, the U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. A Tennessee Democrat who remained loyal to the Union during the… Read More ›
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The International Vision of John Willis Menard, First African-American Elected to Congress Read
From the Smithsonianmag.com by Lorraine Boissoneault: In July 1863, months after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a young African-American man from Illinois boarded a small ship in New York City and headed for Belize City, in what was then… Read More ›