(“The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854,” John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross, editors, University of Nebraska Press, 220 pages, $30 paperback.) One of the most important events to affect Nebraska came before ...

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As the nation expanded westward, the dispute over slavery intensified. Citizens of Southern slave states clashed with Northern activists who were morally opposed to slavery. Would the new territories ...

Born: November 23, 1804, Hillsborough, New Hampshire... Pierce's strong support for the Comrpromise of 1850 appeared to indicate that he was not going to press the issue of slavery. With the country ...

I thought my comparison of Democratic health care legislation with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in my Wednesday Examiner column was an original idea. After all, even David Broder and Lou Cannon ...