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Daniel Webster

Calhoun, Not Webster, Was Right

By W. Kirk Wood

Writing about the “Great Triumvirate” of Webster, Clay, and Calhoun during the third Nullification controversy in America of 1828-1832, and in particular about the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830, the late Prof. Merrill D. Peterson made… »

  • Daniel Webster
  • John C. Calhoun
  • United States Constitution
  • W. Kirk Wood

Rhetoric, Reality, and the Late Unpleasantness

By John Devanny

The 1850s is viewed by most scholars as the crucial decade of the sectional crisis that resulted in the War Between the States. The Great Triumvirate of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster… »

  • Daniel Webster
  • Henry Clay
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John Devanny
  • Slavery

Who Won the Webster-Hayne Debate of 1830?

By H. A. Scott Trask

The dominant historical opinion of the famous debate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Young Hayne of South Carolina which took place in the United States Senate in 1830 has long been that Webster… »

  • Daniel Webster
  • H.A. Scott Trask
  • Nullification
  • Robert Hayne
  • United States Constitution

The South Carolina Doctrine

By Robert Y. Hayne

Sir, South Carolina has not gone one step further than Mr. Jefferson himself was disposed to go in relation to the present subject of our present complaints; not a step further than the statesmen from… »

  • Daniel Webster
  • Nullification
  • Robert Y. Hayne
  • South Carolina
  • Southern History
  • United States Constitution

Andrew Jackson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By James Rutledge Roesch

‘If only I can restore to our institutions their primitive simplicity and purity, can only succeed in banishing those extraneous corrupting influences which tend to fasten monopoly and aristocracy on the Constitution and to make… »

  • Andrew Jackson
  • Daniel Webster
  • Henry Clay
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Nullification
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern History

They Lived in the Age of Calhoun

By Brion McClanahan

If “history is the essence of innumerable biographies,” as Thomas Carlyle wrote, then the historian has the advantage of witnessing past life from beginning to end.  This is a solemn task.  We see the spring… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Daniel Webster
  • Henry Clay
  • John C. Calhoun
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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
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  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
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