Henry Clay's deal that was no deal: How the Compromise of 1850 deepened the slavery crisis

It was a Tuesday, January 29, 1850, and Sen. Henry Clay had set himself the none-too-modest goal of solving the seemingly ...
The Atlantic

History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896/the McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897-1909

‘MY design,’ wrote Mr. Rhodes in beginning his history some thirty-five years ago, ‘is to write the history of the United States from the introduction of the compromise measures of 1850 down to the ...