Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

It can be overwhelming for a newcomer to understand the nuances of the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how each shifted the parameters of the ...

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The North and South resolve the matters by a series of compromises — separate legislative acts that become known as the Compromise of 1850.

A slave-owner himself, he disapproved of the institution and was as devoted to the Union as he was to whiskey and cards. He devised a compromise which offered, he told the Senate on January 29th, 1850 ...

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state and adjusted the borders of the newly admitted slave state, Texas, consistent with the Missouri Compromise.

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 ...

Negotiations later produced the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.