South Carolina was the first to secede from the United States, in late 1860. But they were not the only state to do so. For the first half of 1861, nearly half of the states in the United States left…
This episode summarizes political developments that have already been discussed in previous episodes, explaining how these developments led directly to the founding of the Republican Party. We spend …
The American Civil War had a warm-up game in Kansas, as Free State Advocates and Pro-Slavery Advocates rushed into the territory to influence its development. Political war figuratively broke out, an…
Antebellum (from the Latin for "before the war") America was a significantly different place than the United States of America that emerged from the American Civil War. This episode examines the cult…
The Civil War nearly began in South Carolina almost 30 years before the Civil War actually did begin in South Carolina. This was the "Nullification Crisis," where South Carolina made the strongest po…
The this debut episode of The Blue Collar Scholar, host Will Reitz begins his series on The American Civil War by looking at the seeds of civil war that were planted in the revolutions of both the Un…
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Tue 12 Jul 2022
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