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Today in 1832, Vice President of the United States John Calhoun resigned from office after an ideological break with President Andrew Jackson. He became the first vice president to resign. In 1828, Congress passed the Tariff of 1828 – which southerners called the...
You here the word term “constitutional crisis” thrown around a lot. But what does it actually mean? I was recently part of a documentary project put together by the Federalist Society that chronicles three historical constitutional crises and what they...
One student at the recently concluded Abbeville Institute Summer School asked me to do a show on Southern Whigs. I decided to do more than that. Students usually get the cartoon version of most concepts, issues, or events in American history. In this case, the Whigs...