Arguing Until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy (Micheal E. Woods - CH) blood both in Massachusetts and nationwide

both in Massachusetts and nationwide

a six-part documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan

This is the only known historical biography to be recognized by both a predominately white historical society and a predominately black historical society

for the first time

Arguing Until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy (Micheal E. Woods - CH) blood both in Massachusetts and nationwideby Micheal E. Woods As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture more