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Showing posts with label Expansion of Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expansion of Slavery. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

In The Review Queue: Building A House Divided

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Building A HouseDivided: Slavery, Westward Expansion and the Roots of the Civil War By Stephen G. Hyslop By the time Abraham Lincoln ass...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 18, 1861

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On looking out of my cabin window this morning I found the steamer fast along-side a small wharf, above which rose, to the height of 150 fe...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

William Cullen Bryant to Abraham Lincoln, December 25, 1860

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New York Dec. 25, 1860 My dear Sir, The rumor having got abroad that you have been visited by a well known politician of New York who...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Lydia Maria Child to Governor Henry A. Wise

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In your civil but very diplomatic reply to my letter , you inform me that I have a constitutional right to visit Virginia, for peaceful pu...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: Monday, April 1, 1861

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On Easter Monday, after breakfast with Mr. Olmsted, I drove over to visit Senator Douglas. Originally engaged in some mechanical avocation,...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, July 14, 1861

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Nahant , July 14, 1861. My Dearest Mary : This is the first rainy day since I landed in the country, now nearly five weeks ago. It has ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: September 19, 1861

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A painful piece of news came to us yesterday — our cousin, Mrs. Witherspoon, of Society Hill, was found dead in her bed. She was quite well...