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20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 12:43 pm by Ronald Collins
James Harlan served in Congress and as Kentucky’s attorney general, and was a devoted follower of Henry Clay, to the point that Clay’s politics and James’ were almost interchangeable. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 4:59 am by Nathan Dorn
Another example was a manuscript copy of Article 9 of the Treaty of Ghent in the hand of Henry Clay. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 9:29 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Henry Clay famously said that he would "rather be right than be president. [read post]
9 Jul 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
A few days before President Taylor’s death, he intimated that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay’s bill, he would vote in favor of it. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 12:22 pm by Adam Faderewski
Henry Gissel Jr., 83, of Houston, died September 15, 2020. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 12:22 pm by Adam Faderewski
Henry Gissel Jr., 83, of Houston, died September 15, 2020. [read post]
28 May 2021, 11:20 am by Margaret Wood
The war itself was inconclusive for while the British demanded much in initial negotiations at Ghent, the United States negotiators, who included Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, supported the principle of status quo ante bellum (the state existing before war). [read post]
11 May 2021, 5:30 am by Robert Brammer
Nathan also displays a manuscript copy of Article 9 of the Treaty of Ghent, the treaty that concluded the War of 1812, and which was written in the hand of Henry Clay. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 2:01 am by Steve Lubet
Instead of nominating one of their legendary statesmen — Daniel Webster or Henry Clay — the Whigs went with celebrity war-hero Zachary Taylor, an enslaver who was popular with Southerners but had no governing experience and no fealty to Whig principles. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 5:00 pm
 On June 18, 1963, English Boxer Henry Cooper put young Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammed Ali) on the canvas for the first time in his professional career. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 11:53 am by Nathan Dorn
Ed. by Henry Richards Luard … London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1859. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 11:06 am by David Priess
There, Henry Clay—whose fourth-place finish in the electoral vote removed him from contention, but whose control of three states’ delegations gave him immense power—threw his support to John Quincy Adams, enabling the latter to take office in March 1825. [read post]
22 Aug 2020, 4:24 pm by ernst
-France Nuclear Weapons Cooperation in the Nixon-Kissinger Era         — John Krige    An Interview with Daniel Immerwahr             — Alexander Poster    Book Reviews    Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President     By James Klotter         — Reviewed by Harry L. [read post]