Posts Tagged ‘Antebellum Era’
Harriette J. Cooke: A Professor’s Rank and a Professor’s Pay
In 1871, Cornell College promoted a longtime teacher to professor and, by its own account, paid her the same as the men beside her. Her story raises a question worth asking of any “first”: how do we know?
Read MoreLaura Ingalls Wilder and the Homestead West
A full-life account of Andrew Jackson — frontier orphan, war hero, and seventh president — covering his military career, his presidency’s major controversies, including Indian removal, and his contested legacy.
Read MoreThe Indian Removal Act and Its Consequences
In 1850, Congress defused a crisis over slavery’s expansion by breaking it into five separate laws. One of those laws — a far more coercive Fugitive Slave Act — did more to divide the country than any of the concessions meant to hold it together.
Read MoreAndrew Jackson: An American Life and Legacy
A full-life account of Andrew Jackson — frontier orphan, war hero, and seventh president — covering his military career, his presidency’s major controversies, including Indian removal, and his contested legacy.
Read MoreThe Compromise of 1850: Five Laws, One Unraveling Peace
In 1850, Congress defused a crisis over slavery’s expansion by breaking it into five separate laws. One of those laws — a far more coercive Fugitive Slave Act — did more to divide the country than any of the concessions meant to hold it together.
Read MoreHenry Clay and the Art of Buying Time
Three times across three decades, Congress faced a sectional crisis — and three times, Henry Clay helped assemble a deal to pull it back from the brink. Each bargain held for a while. None settled every conflict underneath.
Read MoreNat Turner and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831
A Southampton County preacher reads scripture and sky over two nights in August 1831 and sets off the deadliest slave revolt in American history — prompting a major legal crackdown on enslaved and free Black Virginians.
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