Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

The Greater Compromiser,” Henry Clay was born in Virginia but built a large political legacy in Kentucky. The Herald-Leader’s ...

A movement for some Illinois counties to join Indiana threatens to resurrect an ominous practice from the 19th century.

(dissonant music) - What the Missouri Compromise does is it places the institution of enslavement front and center in terms of the US government. There has to be a decision made on it. Now ...

A majority of Missouri voters approved paid sick leave and an increase in the state minimum wage in November, but Republicans ...

While Maine’s statehood is often remembered only in the context of the Missouri Compromise, it was also the culmination of decades of growing political and cultural divides between Maine and ...

It can be overwhelming for a newcomer to understand the nuances of the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how each shifted the parameters of the ...

Clay was the notable Kentucky U.S. senator and representative who helped spearhead the Missouri Compromise. Susan Clay and her husband didn't live in the home for long; Archbishop Richard Kenrick ...

Yet by repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had outlawed slavery everywhere in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri’s southern border (except for Missouri itself), the new law ...

This conflict birthed the Missouri Compromise, which created both Maine and Missouri as new states. It became the template for U.S. expansion even after the Civil War settled the slavery question.