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I tend to be an Iliad man myself, but at the Claremont Institute website Classics professor Bruce S. Thorton makes the best possible case f...

The educators among you should know that the drive for free public schools in the Northeast in the 1830s was motivated, according to Charles...

I've posted on Tunguska before , and explained that my intermittent interest goes back to college. Well, here's the return of anoth...

Posts on Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation Regarding Nullification have been slow in coming because I have been having a hard time, frankly, tr...

Both Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln famously held that the Union was older than the Constitution. By way of a refresher, here they ar...

At TOCWOC, Brett Schulte posted yesterday a list of Top Ten Civil War Blogs, in which he generously included this site. As anyone who’s be...

Haven't read either of them yet, but here are two articles on SSRN that look interesting. The first deals with Strader v. Graham , an 18...

Long ago, I published several posts that constituted a sort of prequel to a discussion of Andrew Jackson’s December 10, 1832 Proclamation ...

According to Charles Sellers , James Hamilton, Jr. of South Carolina was "legendary for a perfect record of wounding without killing ...

Van Buren glides along as smoothly as oil and as silently as a cat. Amos Kendall

Andrew Jackson has come down to us as a fierce opponent of federal funding of internal improvements (epitomized by the Maysville Road veto )...

Other than Martin Van Buren at the State Department, Andrew Jackson’s first cabinet is generally given very low marks. Its subsequent dis...

As Charles Sellers tells it, the idea that Andrew Jackson might seriously be considered as a candidate for the presidency was the result o...

Apparently somebody is trying to revive the Whig Party . I certainly agree we need a new party, but I doubt the Whigs are it. As a histori...

John Randolph of Roanoke famously coined the term dough face during the debates over the Missouri Crisis as a term of opprobrium for north...

Yikes! I've heard Old Republican John Taylor of Caroline called many things, but I've never seen him characterized as a proto-Mar...

I’ve begun reading Charles Sellers’s The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 . The Marxist terminology makes me a little nervo...

George McDuffie’s Forty-Bale Theory held that “a tariff that imposed duties averaging 40 percent robbed cotton planters of the value of 40 ...

Ten days week ago, I posted an entry on John Majewski’s new book, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Natio...

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