Waypoints List: Later American History

Four 1860 Party Platforms

Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Ross and Pro-slavery Theology

Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D., Slavery Ordained of God

James Henley Thornwell, “Southern Christian View of Slavery”

Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech

John C. Calhoun, “Disquisition on Government”

John C. Calhoun, Speech on the Oregon Bill

John C. Calhoun, Speech on Reception of Abolition Petitions,

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 Chicago speech responding to Douglas