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Primary source materials are a great way for students to experience firsthand a historic event, to more fully understand a pivotal actor or figure, or to explore legislation or a judicial decision. Students leave these readings better prepared to grapple with secondary sources. In fact, they can often support a different interpretation or more critically engage with analysis. This new volume—with 50 documents that include speeches, court cases, letters, diary entries, excerpts from autobiographies, treaties, legislation, regulations and reports, documentary photographs, ad stills, public opinion polls, transcripts, and press releases—is a great starting point for any parties and elections course. Careful editing, pithy headnotes, and discussion questions all enhance this useful reader.
Chapter 11: Henry Clay's Speech concerning the Whig Party* (1834): Henry Clay's Letter to the Whig Party Convention** (1839)
Henry Clay's Speech concerning the Whig Party* (1834): Henry Clay's Letter to the Whig Party Convention** (1839)
- How did a coalition of interests opposed to Jackson's policies evolve into a major political party, the Whigs?
- What role did Clay fill in ...