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John C. Calhoun: American Portrait

Book by Margaret L. Coit; Houghton Mifflin, 1950

Subjects:

Calhoun, John C--(John Caldwell)--1782-1850

Collections: History, Entire Library

John C. Calhoun CALHOUN AS SECRETARY OF WAR From the...Department of the Army, Washington, D. C. JOHN C. CALHOUN American Portrait BY MARGARET...Lilian Gold, Flint, Michigan; Mr. John C. Calhoun, Columbia, South Carolina; and Mr...
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John C. Calhoun, Opportunist: A Reappraisal

Book by Gerald M. Capers; University of Florida Press, 1960

Subjects:

Calhoun, John C--(John Caldwell)--1782-1850

Collections: History, Entire Library

John C. Calhoun-Opportunist JOHN C. CALHOUN IN THE EYES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 1820's...community think of a man so perversely prone to secret lying as John C. Calhoun is proven to be? " BEVERLY TUCKER 1840's " How he might...
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A Disquisition on Government and Selections from the Discourse

Book by John C. Calhoun, C. Gordon Post; Bobbs-Merrill, 1978

Subjects:

Political Science, United States--Politics And Government

Collections: Entire Library

...Selections from the DISCOURSE JOHN C. CALHOUN Edited, with an introduction...INC. INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK John C. Calhoun: 1782-1850 A DISQUISITION ON...1 Margaret L. Coit, John C. Calhoun, American Portrait Boston...
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Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860

Book by Lacy K. Ford Jr.; Oxford University Press, 1991

Subjects:

Radicalism--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Secession, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865

Collections: History, Entire Library

In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotton-producing region with a burgeoning commercial sector that served as a hotbed of Southern ...
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In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotton-producing region with a burgeoning commercial sector that served as a hotbed of Southern radicalism. This groundbreaking study examines this startling evolution, tracing the growth, logic, and strategy of pro-slavery radicalism and the circumstances and values of white society and politics to analyze why the white majority of the Old South ultimately supported the secession movement that led to bloody civil war.
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Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse

Book by H. Lee Cheek Jr.; University of Missouri Press, 2001

Subjects:

Political Science--United States--History--19th Century, United States--Politics And Government--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

H. Lee Cheek, Jr., is Professor of Political Science at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee.

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Journal Articles on: "John C Calhoun"

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The Papers of John C. Calhoun: Vol. XXVI, 1848-1849

Journal article by Larry Arnhart; Civil War History, Vol. 48, 2002

Subjects:

Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse (Book), The Papers of John C. Calhoun: Vol. XXVI, 1848-1849 (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Papers of John C. Calhoun: Vol. XXVI, 1848-1849. by...29.95.) On February 6, 1837, John C. Calhoun on the floor of the U.S. Senate...latest volume of The Papers of John C Calhoun, readers will find that by the...
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The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXVI: 1848-1849

Journal article by William L. Barney; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002

Subjects:

The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXVI: 1848-1849 (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXVI: 1848-1849. by William L. Barney Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright Cook. (Columbia: University...
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The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXV: 1847-1848

Journal article by William L. Barney; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXV: 1847-1848...L. BARNEY The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXV: 1847-1848. Edited...59.95, ISBN 1-57003-306-4.) John C. Calhoun became increasingly concerned...
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Revolution or Counterrevolution?: The Political Ideology of Secession in Antebellum South Carolina

Journal article by Manisha Sinha; Civil War History, Vol. 46, 2000

Subjects:

Abolitionists--Analysis, Democracy--Analysis, Secession--Analysis, Slavery--Analysis, Southern States--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...political and intellectual tutelage of John C. Calhoun, slaveholders formulated the...Clyde N. Wilson ed., The Papers of John C. Calhoun 1829-1832 (Columbia, S.C., 1878...Governor Hamilton and Honorable John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United...
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An Education in Southern Masculinity: The Ball Family of South Carolina in the New Republic

Journal article by Lorri Glover; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003

Subjects:

Ball, John, Jr.--Education, Elite (Social sciences)--History, Elite (Social sciences)--Social aspects, Masculinity--History, Masculinity--Social aspects, South Carolina--History, South Carolina--Social aspects, Southern United States--History, Southern United States--Social aspects

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...during the early republic). Young John C. Calhoun, a contemporary of John Ball Jr...sustenance in northern institutions. John C. Calhoun complained shortly after his arrival...Throughout his stay at Yale, John C. Calhoun wanted to circulate among more...

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Magazine Articles on: "John C Calhoun"

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Culture Watch: Legacy Admissions

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 53, September 17, 2001

Subjects:

Slavery--History, Universities and colleges--Social policy, Yale University--Social policy

Collections: Entire Library

...The germ of the spat at Yale is the fact that one of its twelve residential colleges is named for a famous alumnus, John C. Calhoun (class of 1804). How could a modern liberal university enshrine the Cicero of the slave power? Upon examination, it...
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Do the People Rule?

Magazine article by Michael Lind; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 26, Winter 2002

Subjects:

Americans--Attitudes, Politics--Public opinion, Public opinion polls--Analysis, Sovereignty--Public opinion

Collections: Entire Library

...version, held by Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, and the Confederate secessionists...theory. South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, its most brilliant proponent...other compact theorists, such as John C. Calhoun, his adversary in old age. On...
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They Made America

Magazine article by Ross Douthat; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 298, December 2006

Subjects:

Businesspeople--Investments, Businesspeople--Management, Entrepreneurs--Investments, Entrepreneurs--Management, Entrepreneurship--Investments, Entrepreneurship--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...is in the Top 100, as is the pro-slavery legislator John C. Calhoun (58). In a sense, perhaps, the final list is a testament...better symbol, embodying conciliation in defeat. 58 JOHN C. CALHOUN The voice of the antebellum South, he was slaverys most...
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Correspondence

Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...their humanity. Jefferson did not even intimate, unlike John C. Calhoun and Alexander Stephens, that blacks should be enslaved...denied their humanity. So far as I am aware, neither did John C. Calhoun and Alexander Stephens. What all of them shared was...
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Manifesting Destiny

Magazine article by George Mckenna; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...clicked out the message Howe uses for the main title of this book. These helped conquer "the tyranny of distance," as John C. Calhoun called it, and played a role in stimulating the great social changes of the time, including the advances in Americas...

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Newspaper Articles on: "John C Calhoun"

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In the Footsteps of an Ulster Pioneer; in the First Article of an Occasional Series on Ulster-Scots Luminaries Who Pioneered the American Frontier in the 18th/early 19th Century, BILLY KENNEDY Retraces the Footsteps of United States Vice-President John C Calhoun, Whose Father Emigrated from Londonderry

Newspaper article by Billy Kennedy; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), December 10, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of United States Vice-President John C Calhoun, Whose Father Emigrated from Londonderry...in-law, the Rev Moses Waddell, John C Calhoun gained the early grounding in life...for millions across the nation. John C Calhoun was born in 1782 to his Donegal-born...
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Strengthening the EU; Secession Could Be a Means to Reform

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 21, 2005

Subjects:

European Union

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Any member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements." John C. Calhoun would have liked it and Jefferson Davis used it. Abraham Lincoln would have opposed it. Yet it would have saved the...
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History Shows That the Civil War Was about Slavery

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 21, 1998

Subjects:

Lincoln, Abraham

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Williams central problem, though, is not his historical errors. Along with left-wing libertarians, such as that other John C. Calhoun enthusiast Lani Guinier, Mr. Williams shares the view that our Constitution is separated from the basic moral principles...
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The Missing Troops on the Border

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 30, 2006

Subjects:

Soldiers--Military aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...so enthusiastically invoked. Its enough to cheer the ghost of old John C. Calhoun. In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has pointedly told the...blowing more smoke. Pruden on Politics runs on Tuesdays and Fridays. John C. Calhoun NO CREDIT
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New Centre Will Recall Presbyterian Pioneers

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 2, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...were President James Knox Polk (his family came from Lifford-Londonderry), early 19th century American Vice-President John C Calhoun (his father, Patrick, was a Donegal man) and frontiersman Davy Crockett (his family came from Castlederg-East Donegal...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "John C Calhoun"

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Rusk, Thomas Jefferson

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...57, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Texas (1846 57), b. Pendleton District, S.C. He studied law under John C. Calhoun and practiced in Clarksville, Ga., for 10 years before moving to Texas in 1835. Rusk was a member of the convention...
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States' Rights

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of absolute state sovereignty that was espoused by John C. Calhoun and that of the so-called strict constructionist interpretation...acts of 1828 and 1832, when, under the leadership of John C. Calhoun , South Carolina passed its ordinance of nullification...
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Reeve, Tapping

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opened his law school in Litchfield, Conn.; it was one of the first schools of law in the United States. Aaron Burr, John C. Calhoun, Horace Mann, and many other future senators, governors, and judges studied there. ____________________ The Columbia...
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Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1837 43, 1845 47), serving as speaker from 1839 to 1841. Hunter became a leading states rights Democrat and supported John C. Calhoun for the presidency in 1844. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1847, where he became a prominent spokesman for the Southern...
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Presidents of the United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican 1825 29 John C. Calhoun Andrew Jackson Democratic 1829 37 John C. Calhoun, 1829 32 (no Vice President, Dec., 1832 Mar., 1833...

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