Catherine Halley of JSTOR Daily offers some great resources. Here is a taste of her January 7 piece: Yesterday our friends who teach sixth grade were asking: how do I talk to my students about the insurrection that just happened […]
election of 1860
Quote of the day
John Stuart Mill on why the rebellion of the Confederacy was not justified: “Did ever any other section of a nation break through the solemn contract which united them with the rest, for no reason but that they were defeated […]
The 1860 election led to Civil War, but it was decided fairly
Here is historian Ted Widmer at The New York Times: On Nov. 6, Lincoln was duly elected. But his percentage of the popular vote was very small (39.8 percent) — below even Herbert Hoover’s in 1932, when Hoover lost in […]
What if Trump refuses to give up power?
Clarkson University political scientist Alexander Cohen says that “American democracy will survive” if Trump decides to contest the election of 2020. He points to five previous contested elections: 1800, 1824, 1876, 1960, and 2000. In all five cases, democracy survived. […]
Virtual Office Hours: U.S. History Survey Edition – Episode 26
“The 1850’s: Part One” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf8u_hPSmaE]