{"id":240,"date":"2008-10-31T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:38:48","slug":"helpful-websites-for-johnson-impeachment-1868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/10\/31\/helpful-websites-for-johnson-impeachment-1868\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful websites for Johnson Impeachment (1868)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1638\" title=\"effectonthevote1\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/effectonthevote1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/effectonthevote1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/effectonthevote1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> Two websites currently stand out for the access they provide to primary sources about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868.\u00a0 The first from Douglas O. Linder&#8217;s quite exceptional &#8220;Famous Trials&#8221; series.\u00a0 Linder, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) has put together invaluable primary source packets on trials from Socrates to the 9\/11 hijackers.\u00a0 His archive on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/impeach\/impeachmt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson impeachment trial<\/a> is quite good and contains both primary sources and useful background information such as a timeline and bibliography.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s not too many visual bells &amp; whistles here, but the content is strong.\u00a0 A more professional-looking site and one that also contains significant content comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HarpWeek<\/a>.\u00a0 Their site relies on over 200 excerpts, including wonderful cartoons and images, from Harper&#8217;s Weekly magazine during the period 1865-1869.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two websites currently stand out for the access they provide to primary sources about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868.\u00a0 The first from Douglas O. Linder&#8217;s quite exceptional &#8220;Famous Trials&#8221; series.\u00a0 Linder, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) has put together invaluable primary source packets on trials from Socrates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,156,84],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-periodicals","category-images","category-reconstruction-1865-1880","tag-lawmaking-litigating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}