This interview was originally broadcast on October 11, 2010. In 1854, Sen. Stephen Douglas forced the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress. The bill, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, ...
As expected, your Missouri History Museum’s exquisite exhibit Lee and Grant is sparking the kind of discussion about the iconic generals, the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and slavery that ...
It was 1860 and America was at an inflection point. It wasn't just slavery that was on trial: the Founding Fathers' vision itself was up for grabs. A growing segment of America’s population—mostly in ...
Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address is a dense, technical affair. Delivered in March 1861, before the outbreak of the Civil War but after seven states had left the Union, it could hardly have ...
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