Tuesday marked the beginning of the Senate impeachment trial that will determine whether US President Donald Trump is removed from office.

In 1868, Edwin Stanton holed up in his Washington office while the Senate tried President Andrew Johnson, who had been impeached for trying to fire him illegally. Stanton lived there for months.

On March 5, 1868, the first day of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, the following item appeared on the front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The sheer poetry of this news item is ...

The impeachment trial was almost over, and Sen. James Grimes was tormented with doubt. The senator from Iowa couldn’t stand Andrew Johnson, the belligerent, racist president on trial before the ...

Senate historian Betty Koed told the story of the sensationalized 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.

However, many of the standards for how the impeachment of a president would play out occurred in the nation’s first big impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in the 1860s.

There was intense demand to see the Senate weigh whether to remove Andrew Johnson from office after he became the first president in American history to be impeached.

Dean Obeidallah writes that a fair impeachment trial in the Senate requires that witnesses be called, in accordance with all such prior proceedings the body has undertaken.

The first impeachment of a sitting cabinet member sets off a series of choreographed rituals that dates back to the impeachment of former President Andrew Johnson in 1868.

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate.