Though it is well-trod ground, Merry provides a thorough, clearly written review of the pivotal moments of the decade including the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, Bleeding Kansas ...

Welcome to the final installment of Beach Read Book Club’s discussion of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise. Today, we’re tackling the end of the book and its many revelations.

It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

“most Americans seemed eager to set their sectional quarrel aside,” as evidenced by generations of compromises over slavery—the most recent having been the Missouri Compromise of ...

Challenges: Millard Fillmore inherited the uncompleted legislation known as the Compromise of 1850, a senatorial initiative to reconcile the competing issues involved in organizing the territories ...

The Compromise of 1850 brought relative calm to the nation. Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a ...

In his spirited narrative, Taylor shows how the destinies of the three North American powers—Canada, Mexico, and the United States—became forever intertwined. In the nineteenth century, the doctrines ...

That book, like “Long Island Compromise,” begins with a missing parent. One morning, the high-powered talent agent and high-strung Manhattan mom Rachel Fleishman kidnaps herself to attend the ...

Most histories of the world economy since the “first age of globalization” that began in the late 1800s revolve around the various domestic and international processes that led to global integration ...