Episode 41

Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)

“The Caning of Charles Sumner.” United States Senate. Accessed at: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm.

Congressional Edition, Volume 868. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1856. 

Douglass, Frederick. “John Brown.” May 30, 1881. Dover, NH: Morning Star Printing House, 1881. Accessed at: http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/bbspr05-0032.html.

Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 

Etcheson, Nicole. “The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the ‘Crisis in Law and Order.’” In Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border, Johathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke, editors. 47-63. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013. 

Finkelman, Paul. “Scott v. Sandford: The Court's Most Dreadful Case and How It Changed History.” Chicago-Kent Law Review, volume 82. December 2006. Accessed at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://en.wikipedia.org/&httpsredir=1&article=3570&context=cklawreview.

Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 

Greeley, Horace. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in Your United States, 1860-65. Chicago: O.D. Case and Company, 1866. 

“Old Senate Chamber.” C-SPAN. November 23, 2006. Accessed at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4633919/senate-chamber.

Ponce, Pearl T. “‘The Noise of Democracy’: The Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas.” In Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border, Johathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke, editors. 81-96. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013. 

Shelden, Rachel A. Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Books, 2013. 

Sullivan, Casey C. “13 Worst Supreme Court Decisions of All Time.” FindLaw. October 14, 2015. Accessed at: https://blogs.findlaw.com/supreme_court/2015/10/13-worst-supreme-court-decisions-of-all-time.html.

Sumner, Charles. The Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The Rue Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner in the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th May, 1856. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1856. Accessed at: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/CrimeAgainstKSSpeech.pdf.

Wallner, Peter A. Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire’s Favorite Son. New York: Plaidswede Publishers, 2004.  

Walther, Eric H. The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Wells, Damon. Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857-1861. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1971.