If you visited Richmond in 1859 you would have witnessed a great deal of change, including ships going down the James with wheat for Australia, an increasing number of railroads, [...]
Bob Kenzer, Charles Dew, Gregg Kimball, Lauranett Lee While the population of Virginia was expanding there were problems. Va was a net exporter of people. Many white Virginians had to [...]
The 1859 census will show that 99% of the north is white. Most people in the North do not wake up thinking about the South. They are thinking about jobs, [...]
The importance of Cuba connected directly with representation in the Senate – few slave states and a growing number of free states. Cuba has the potential of bringing some balance [...]
Christy Coleman, Gary Gallagher, Joan Waugh, Walter Johnson, Edward L. Ayers Panelists are going to paint a broad panorama of what the nation looked like in 1859. EA: What will [...]
