Wars are waged by young men on battlefields. But, before that, they get trained up in camps; and before that, they were somewhere else, doing something else: perhaps working, helping their families, or being educated. It is one of the many cruelties of war that those men must pause their lives, and all their activities, to go fight and perhaps never resume them—for they may not return or, even if they do, they may return with no semblance of the youth and innocence they once had. And yet, despite this cruelty, there are seemingly countless instances of it.
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The Theories of Slavery
Trout Fishing in Sullivan County, New York. By: Henry Inman. In the 15 years leading up to the Civil War, a wide variety of theories emerged for how the federal government should deal with slavery expanding, or not expanding, into the territories acquired by the United States.
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Election of 1844: Polk Prevails
Campaign Banner for James Polk and George Dallas. Throughout the first twelve days of November of 1844, the population voted for the next president. Voters had to pick between the Democrat, James Polk, the Whig, Henry Clay, and the Liberty Party’s candidate, James Birney. See Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: Transformation of America, 1815-1848, 688.
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Election of 1844: The Conventions
James Knox Polk. By: George P.A. Healy. The Election of 1844 was one of the most momentous in American history.
Last Best Hope of Earth 