Compromise of 1850

Bibliography

Books

• Bordewich, Fergus M. America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
• Coit, Margaret L. John C. Calhoun: American Portrait. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
• Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
• Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990–2007.
• Hamilton, Holman. Zachary Taylor. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941–1951.
• Hamilton, Holman. Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
• Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Maizlish, Stephen E. A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
• McLaughlin, Andrew C. A Constitutional History of the United States. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935.
• McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Milton, George F. The Eve of Conflict: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.
• Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union. 2 vols. New York: Scribner, 1947.
• Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861. Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
• Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W.  W. Norton, 1991.
• Remini, Robert V. At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union. New York: Basic Books, 2012.
• Schurz, Carl. Henry Clay. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1887.
• Tefft, B. F. Speeches of Daniel Webster and his Master-Pieces. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1854.

Websites

• Calhoun, John C. “The Clay Compromise Measures.” National Center for Public Policy Research Web site. http://www.nationalcenter.org/CalhounClayCompromise.html. Accessed on September 1, 2007.
• “The Seventh of March Speech.” Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son, Dartmouth College website. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/seventh-march.html.
• “The Territorial Question: Speech of Mr. Douglas.” Furman University website. http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/Douglas50.htm.