Robert Elder

Robert Elder
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Robert Elder is an Associate Professor of History at Baylor University, where he teaches courses on the American South, the Early Republic, and the Civil War. His latest book, Calhoun: American Heretic (Basic Books, 2021), is a biography of South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun. He lives in Woodway, Texas.

Recent Essays

Into the Whirlpool: Is Secession a Solution to Our Woes?

Can a renewed or more explicitly acknowledged federalism keep us from the whirlpool of secession? We should all hope so. But what if we have already been sucked in?