Showing posts with label nullification controversy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nullification controversy. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Trump puts Andrew Jackson back in the news

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Well, I called this blog "Old Hickory's Weblog" for most of its existence 'til now. So I'm happy to see this refreshin...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2017, April 9: Andrew Jackson and the Missouri Compromise

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I'm out of step with current popular impressions of early US history in that I insist on validating the advancements in democracy and eq...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Mark Twain's white suit and Andrew Jackson

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I hadn't realized before, or maybe I had forgotten, that Sanuel "Mark Twain" Clemons used his trademark white suit as a politi...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2013, April 12: Again with Madison and nullification

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The Nullification Controversy (or Nullification Crisis) of 1832-3 was an important moment in the development of the conflict between slave a...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 11: Madison and the Nullfication Controversy

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When John Calhoun and his allies in South Carolina staged their confrontation with the United States and the Jackson Administration over th...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2012, April 5: Michael Lind on the southern roots of Republican Tea Party politics

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One of Michael Lind's strong points as a political analyst is recognizing continuities between Southern segregationist political trends ...
Friday, October 24, 2003

Andrew Jackson, states rights and the South

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Since I've been posting about antebellum Southern politics, I can't pass up the chance to work in some Andrew Jackson content here. ...
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