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The following books from the Library's collections examine the history of the Compromise of 1850. The bibliography contains a selection of books for general readers.
America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union by 
At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union by 
On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How it Changed the Course of American History by 
The Political Crisis of the 1850s by 
Prologue to Conflict, the Crisis and Compromise of 1850 by 
A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War by 
Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary Dispute & Sectional Crisis by 
