Join me on a tour of Fort Hill, the home of John C Calhoun who served as the 7th vice president. Even more so than many of Harrison and Clay’s other contemporaries, Calhoun leaves a difficult legacy for students of history to consider as his concepts of nullification, states’ rights, and slavery as a ‘positive good’ were key justifications to lead the Southern states to secede and form the Confederacy just over a decade after Calhoun’s death, and Calhoun’s ideas and the events that they inspired continue to have an impact on the present day. The historic site provides great insight into Calhoun’s domestic situation and about the enslaved people whose lives Calhoun held in his hands, both as a slave owner and as a national leader.
Pictures from the trip can be located at http://whhpodcast.blubrry.com
The campus map can be located at the following link: http://www.clemson.edu/campus-map/
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031 – The Death Episode
030 – Presidents on Harrison
029 – The Thirty Days
028 – Keep the Ball A’Rollin: The Long Path to the White House
027 – Years of Struggle
026 – The Case of Harrison v Despotism
025 – The Colombian Mission
024 – The New Year’s Levee
023 – Christmas in Early America
022 – Corrupt Bargains and Shallow Minds
021 – The Era of Ill Feelings
020 – Mr. Harrison Goes to Washington
019 – The US and the Ottoman Empire
018 – To Arms, Eh?: The Defense of Canada and the Death of Tecumseh
017 – The Second American Revolution: This Time, It’s Personal
016 – The Battle of Tippecanoe
015 – The 1840 Presidential Debate
014 – Courtin’, Cavortin’, and Carryin’ On: Harrison’s Early Public Service
013 – Here and There or Maybe Over There: The Wandering Start of William Henry Harrison
012 – The Education of William Henry Harrison
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