The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

Let us assume that South Carolina retires upon the election of ... of duty exacted by the National treasury? The results of secession, independently of any armed coercion on the part of the ...

By June, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... Louisiana’s secession wasn’t a given in 1860. The biggest city in the South was New Orleans, and she was a port city with strong ties to ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually ... tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

It opens with the April 1860 Democratic National Convention ... Yet his election automatically caused the secession of South Carolina, followed by its sister cotton states. There remained only ...

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has determined to substitute for such worthless instruments of secession as the present Senator, men of more decided character and more liberal opinions. The geographical paradox of a Southern ...

Swett, Brooks Tucker 2022. The Reconstruction of Federalism: Foreign Submarine Telegraph Cables and American Law, 1868–78. Law and History Review, Vol. 40, Issue. 3 ...

President Temer has had a lot in his in-tray recently Voters in the south of Brazil have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country. The referendum was organised ...

"The opening sentence alone…would not be out of place among the declarations of secession issued nearly 165 years ago." As if on cue, two weeks later, Daniel Miller, founder of the Texas ...

Next year Beijing could use the 20th anniversary of its Anti-Secession Law to clarify how “non-peaceful means” may be taken against Taiwan, according to Taipei City councillor Vincent Chao.