People and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional posturing. That takes place in the 1850s. It was compounded by two weak president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by michael holt, professor of history for many years at the niversity of virginia. In fact, the mentor to both Rachel Sheldon and me. I think i was his first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. The political crisis of the 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. It became the basis for a book, a very influential book that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation amongst scholars ever since. It is pretty easy to understand why that is so. You just have to think about what happens after the gold rush in california as the w
I am not specifically a civil war historian, but i moonlight in the field. Thatnk it is appropriate we open our discussion of the political crisis of the 1850s as the prelude to what follows in this next five days. History is fundamentally about people and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional process during posturing. Weaks compounded by two president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by ofhael holt, professor history for many years at the university of virginia. His first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. Thepolitical crisis of 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. ,t became the basis for a book a very in tool influential book, that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation am
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