Professor Allen Guelzo

Henry Clay proposed to make California a free state along with the territorial organization of Utah and New Mexico. However, he made it an omnibus bill which failed to find an approval at the Senate. […]

There was much debate on the issue of slavery and Mexican Cession. With Zachary Taylor winning the presidential election, his stance on statehood and slavery came to the fore. […]

James Polk put forward an Appropriation Bill for Mexican Cession which led to the proposal of Wilmot Proviso. However, Polk and his Southern Democrats managed to do away with this amendment. […]

The Mexicans vehemently resented the Americans because of their Texan annexation. The American army started with a feat that continued through a series, finally resulting in their ultimate victory on the foreign land. […]

Mexico held deep set grudge against the United States because of their Texan annexation. Following a US camp at the Texan border and a sudden ambush, Polk declared war against Mexico, even though it meant that they had to enlist men in the US army. […]

Having no other suitable candidate to nominate for the presidential elections, the Democrats went ahead with James K. Polk hoping him to be the dark horse. […]

In philosophy, the first appearance of Romanticism in America was in the work of James Marsh. Romantic philosophy then produced a new Romantic theology in America. […]

The Scottish common sense philosophy, or ‘Scottish realism’, became the unofficial American philosophy of the early Republic, and offered a foundation for talking about morality. However, there was a lot of dissent against it. […]

How did Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton know that there was such a thing as a human nature that is common to all humanity? The answer to this came from Jonathan Edwards, a committed Protestant Calvinist. […]