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What 1856 Teaches Us About the Ramifications of the House Speaker Fight
The battle is worth winning for Kevin McCarthy — and could reshape the Republican Party.
by
Corey M. Brooks
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Made by History
on
January 5, 2023
The Most Important 19th Century American You've Never Heard Of
A new book chronicles the life of the 19th century political giant of Salmon Chase.
by
Carl Paulus
via
Washington Examiner
on
May 13, 2022
The Messiest Speakership Battle in History
160 years ago, a similarly fractured GOP took months to settle on a speaker.
by
Joshua Zeitz
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 30, 2015
The Election in November
The Atlantic’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for presidency in the 1860 election, correctly predicting it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”
by
James Russell Lowell
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The Atlantic
on
October 1, 1860
Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest
Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?
by
Phil Christman
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The New Republic
on
February 22, 2023
Prospects for Partisan Realignment: Lessons from the Demise of the Whigs
What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.
by
Philip Wallach
via
Brookings
on
March 6, 2017
Who Freed the Slaves?
For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
by
Stephanie McCurry
via
The Nation
on
September 13, 2016
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