Edwin M. Stanton

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

Was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson a matter of national principles? Or an affair of pragmatic politics?

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

It’s Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, who provides the best model for Trump’s collapsing presidency.

Meet Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hatmaker who was John Wilkes Booth's Jack Ruby.

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?