TIME MACHINE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FIRST INAUGURATION

Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration as the 16th President of the United States occurred on March 4, 1861. The event marked the first time that a candidate from the Republican Party would enter the White House as this country's head of state.

The past two to three decades marked a great deal of turmoil for the United States, due to the growing sectional conflict that had developed between the Northern and Southern states over slavery and other issues. The Democratic Party (previously the Democratic-Republican Party) had dominated the country...

TIME MACHINE: THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

July 1-3 marked the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought over three days in Gettysburg, from the entire war. Fought between the Army of the Potomoc, under the command of Major General George G. Meade; and the Army of Northern Virgina under General Robert E. Lee, the Battle of Gettysburg marked the latter's 秒 attempt to invade the North and is regarded as the turning point of the Civil War.

Following the Army of Northern Virgina's major victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, General Lee hoped to follow up his success with...

TIME MACHINE: COMPROMISE OF 1850

One hundred and seventy years 以前 marked the passage of the controversial document, the Compromise of 1850. The document was a package of five separate bills passed 由 the United States Congress in September 1850. These bills were used to defuse a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired after the Mexican–American War.

A new 辩论 over slavery in the territories had erupted during the Mexican–American War. Many Southerners sought to expand slavery to the newly-acquired lands and many Northerners, wary of...

TIME MACHINE: THE OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE

For once I decided to write about a historical event that is not celebrating any particular anniversary. Actually, it would have celebrated its 150th anniversary back in September 2008. But I did not think of it until recently. The event I speak of is the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.

Anyone familiar with Antebellum 或者 Civil War history would know about it. The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue was a key event in the history of the American abolitionist movement before the Civil War. It centered around the arrest of an escaped slave named John Price in Oberlin,...