‘The Sewards of New York’ review: A family for abolition

William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...
KTLA

Happy anniversary California! Tuesday marks 175 years of statehood for the Golden State

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 ...
Washington Examiner

How the Civil War became inevitable

That is not to say, however, that the division between North and South was only rooted in the matter of slavery. One of the most interesting chapters in the book explores the differences between the ...
The American Conservative

The Prelude to the Civil War

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...