Calhoun's Exposition was Lex Luthor to the Jackson Proclamation's Superman. Batman to his Joker. Wolverine to his Magneto. Get the picture? If Jackson and Calhoun were actually superheroes/villains...

You know how when you are really little, you listen to your parents without questioning too much? Sure, there's a complaint here and there, but their authority was iron-clad. Then you hit your pret...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, just like the Nullification Crisis, was created in an atmosphere defined by North/South animosities and questions about the nature of federal power. But as if it was...

In 1829, a Connecticut senator floated the idea of putting an indefinite limit on the sale of lands in the west and the surveying of new land. A Missouri senator protested that this was just a ploy...

The full title was The Olive Branch, or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic. A Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and Harmony. Shmoop loves those 19th-century titles. B...