Note: Each chapter concludes with Further Reading.
1. PERSPECTIVES ON THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT.
Essays.
James M. McPherson, "The Second American Revolution," Hayes
Historical Journal, Spring 1992. Drew Gilpin Faust, "We Should Grow
Too Fond of It: Why We Love the Civil War," Civil War History,
December 2004, pp.368-83. LeeAnn Whites, "The Civil War as a Crisis
in Gender," in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., Divided
Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Oxford University Press,1992),
pp.3-21. Edward L. Ayers, "The First Occupation," The New York
Times Magazine, May 29, 2005 (entire article).
2. THE SLAVE SOUTH.
Documents.
1. Frederick Law Olmsted Observes Southern Lassitude, 1854. 2.
Hinton Rowan Helper Exposes Southern Backwardness, 1857. 3. James
Henry Hammond Claims Southern Cultural Superiority, 1845. 4. George
Fitzhugh Praises Southern Society, 1854. 5. J.D.B. DeBow Explains
Why Nonslaveholders Should Support Slavery, 1860. 6. An
Abolitionist Journal Condemns Slavery and the Slave Trade,
September 1837. 7. N.L. Rice, a Proslavery Minister, Blames
Abolitionists for the Slave Trade, October 1845.
Essays.
James M. McPherson, "Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look
at an Old Question," Civil War History, September 1983, pp.230-44.
Steven Deyle, The Domestic Slave Trade as Slavery's Lifeblood.
3. THE IMPENDING CRISIS.
Documents.
1. The Independent Democrats Protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
January 1854. 2. Stephen Douglas of Illinois Explains the
Objectives of His Bill, February 1854. 3. Senator Robert Toombs of
Georgia Insists on Congress's Responsibility to Protect Slavery in
the Territories, January 1856. 4. Senator William Henry Seward of
New York Warns of an Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858. 5.
Senator Albert G. Brown of Mississippi Denounces the Federal
Government for Failing to Protect the South, December 1859.
Essays.
William E. Gienapp, "The Republican Party and the Slave Power," in
Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish, eds., New Perspectives on
Race and Slavery in America. (Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 1986) pp. 51-75. Don E. Fehrenbacher, "Kansas,
Republicanism, and the Crisis of the Union," in Fehrenbacher, The
South and Three Sectional Crises (Louisiana State University Press,
1980), pp. 45-65.
4. SECTIONALISM AND SECESSION.
Documents.
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson Condemns the South for the Assault on
Charles Sumner, February 1857. 2. Abraham Lincoln Addresses the
Issue of Sectionalism, February 1860. 3. South Carolina Declares
and Justifies Its Secession, December 1860. 4. Mississippi's
Secession Commissioner Urges Georgia to Secede, December 1860. 5.
Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens Identifies "The
Cornerstone of the Confederacy," March 1861.
Essays.
Susan-Mary Grant, "When Is a Nation Not a Nation?: The Crisis of
American Nationality," in Grant, North Over South: Northern
Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (University
Press of Kansas, 2000), pp.130-52. Manisha Sinha, "Revolution or
Counterrevolution?: The Political Ideology of Secession in
Antebellum South Carolina," Civil War History, September 2000,
pp.205-26.
5. GENERALS AND CAMPAIGNS: HOW THEY FOUGHT.
Documents.
1. George B. McClelland Gives President Lincoln a Lesson in Grand
Strategy, July 1862. 2. General Robert E. Lee Takes the Offensive,
September 1862. 3. General E. Porter Alexander, C.S.A., Assesses
Lea and McClellan at Antietam, September 1862. 4. General Grant
Transmits His Plan for the Overland Campaign, April 1864. 5. Grant
Recalls His Thoughts on the Eve of the Overland Campaign, 1886. 6.
General William T. Sherman Explains How the War Has Changed,
September 1864. 7. General Grant Reports His Assignment
Accomplished, July 1865.
Essays.
Gary W. Gallagher, "A Civil War Watershed: The 1862 Richmond
Campaign in Perspective," in Gary Gallagher, ed., The Richmond
Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (Chapel Hill:
The University of North Carolina Press, 2000) pp. 2-23. Mark Grimsl
Michael Perman is Professor of History and Research Professor in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.A. from Oxford University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation adviser was the late John Hope Franklin. He has published three books on the late nineteenth century South: REUNION WITHOUT COMPROMISE: THE SOUTH AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1868 (1973); THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION: SOUTHERN POLITICS, 1869-1879 (1984), which won three book prizes; and STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY: DISFRANCHISEMENT IN THE SOUTH, 1888-1908 (2001). He has also written EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION (2003) and, more recently, PURSUIT OF UNITY: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH (2010). Perman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979-80 and was appointed the John Adams Distinguished Professor of American History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2002-2003. In 2007, he gave the 69th Series of the Fleming Lectures in Southern History, soon to be published by Louisiana State University Press. Amy Murrell Taylor is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her B.A. from Duke University (1993) and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (2001), where she worked with the Virginia Center for Digital History and served as a project manager for the VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: TWO COMMUNITIES IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, a digital archive. Taylor has written THE DIVIDED FAMILY IN CIVIL WAR AMERICA (2005), a social and cultural study that explores how families coped with the war’s intrusion into their private lives. She has also contributed chapters to Joan Cashin, ed., THE WAR WAS YOU AND ME (2002) and Catherine Clinton, ed., SOUTHERN FAMILIES AT WAR (2000). Taylor served as a production and research assistant for the PBS series, THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW. The American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities have supported her research. She is now studying the social history of emancipation, focusing on slave runaways and refugee camps. In 2007, she won an excellence-in-teaching award at her university.
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