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Civil War and Reconstruction

Contents

  • 1. A Modernizing Nation, 1840–1860
  • 2. The Antebellum South
  • 3. Slavery, 1830–1860
  • 4. Sectionalism Politicized, 1848–1857
  • 5. A House Dividing, 1857–1860
  • 6. The Secession Winter
  • 7. Lincoln, the Upper South, and the Sumter Crisis
  • 8. The Border States
  • 9. First Campaigns
  • 10. The Virginia Front, 1861–1863
  • 11. Union Measures and Men
  • 12. Problems of the Confederacy
  • 13. The Union Government at War
  • 14. Financing the War in the North
  • 15. The American Question Abroad
  • 16. Emancipation: The War Redefined
  • 17. The War’s Middle Phase
  • 18. Military Campaigns in 1864
  • 19. The Naval War
  • 20. Northern Politics, 1861–1864
  • 21. The Home Front in the North
  • 22. The Collapse of the Confederacy
  • 23. The End of the War
  • 24. The Challenge of Reconstruction: Legacies of the War in the North
  • 25. The Challenge of Reconstruction: Legacies of the War in the South
  • 26. Presidential Reconstruction
  • 27. Responses to Presidential Reconstruction
  • 28. Congressional Reconstruction: The First Phase
  • 29. Congressional Reconstruction: The Second Phase, 1867–1869
  • 30. Reconstruction in the South
  • 31. The Failure of Reconstruction in the South
  • 32. The North, the Grant Administration, and Reconstruction
  • 33. The Retreat from Reconstruction
  • 34. The End of Reconstruction