Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Fergus Bordewich talks about the Compromise of 1850 and its significance to the North winning the Civil War more than a decade later. Fergus ...

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Given the political tensions in the United States, perhaps it might be useful to revisit the dilemmas of the 1850s. During that period, “moderates” labored mightily to avoid slavery. Usually, ...

Tuesday marks the 175 th anniversary of California being admitted as a state. Sept. 9, 1850, is the day that then-President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, which made California the ...

Historians tend to present “a carefully curated inventory of provocations” when explaining “the collapse of sectional compromise” that led to the Civil War, but that collapse was experienced in real ...