{"id":1484,"date":"2016-02-04T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:06:56","slug":"impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2016\/02\/04\/impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com\/ListOfCartoons\/KingAndy.htm\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1485\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/King-Andy-by-Nast-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"King Andy by Nast\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/King-Andy-by-Nast-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/King-Andy-by-Nast.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>American politics has always been pretty rough, but perhaps no period was as bare-knuckled and partisan as the Reconstruction era. \u00a0The confrontations involved more than just political combat between Democrats and Republicans. \u00a0There were factions at odds with factions. \u00a0Most notably, President Andrew Johnson waged war against Radical Republicans. \u00a0These men had once been Unionist allies, but now found themselves in bitter disagreement over Reconstruction policy in the South. \u00a0The result of this escalating conflict was the impeachment crisis of 1868. \u00a0Thomas Nast, a leading cartoonist for <em>Harpers Weekly\u00a0<\/em>depicted this crisis in a brilliant series of cartoons for the magazine. \u00a0Please browse the selection of these cartoons and select one that seems to embody some of the most important insights from Eric Foner&#8217;s history of the period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harp Week exhibit on Impeachment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com\/ListOfCartoons\/ListOfCartoons.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Nast cartoons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American politics has always been pretty rough, but perhaps no period was as bare-knuckled and partisan as the Reconstruction era. \u00a0The confrontations involved more than just political combat between Democrats and Republicans. \u00a0There were factions at odds with factions. \u00a0Most notably, President Andrew Johnson waged war against Radical Republicans. \u00a0These men had once been Unionist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}