A political nation new directions in mid-nineteenth-century American political history / [electronic resource] :
edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Rachel A. Shelden.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2012.
- viii, 253 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political culture in antebellum America: Not so strange bedfellows: northern and southern whigs in the Texas annexation controversy, 1844-1845 / Rachel A. Shelden; Apotheosis of a ruffian: the murder of Bill Pool and American political culture / Mark E. Neely Jr.; Public women and partisan politics, 1840-1860 / Jean Harvey Baker -- The politics of the secession crisis: The southern opposition and the crisis of the Union / Daniel W. Crofts; Reviving state rights / William W. Freehling; Where was Henry Clay? president-elect Abraham Lincoln and the crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 / William J. Cooper -- Parties and federalism in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction: "Come weal, come woe, I am with the anti-slavery party": federalism and the formation of the Pennsylvania Union Party, 1860-1864 / Sean Nalty; Alabama's Presidential Reconstruction Legislature / J. Mills Thornton; The fate of northern Democrats after the Civil War: another look at the presidential election of 1868 / Erik B. Alexander; Consider the alternatives: reassessing Republican Reconstruction / Brooks D. Simpson.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Federal government--History--United States--19th century. Secession--History.--United States States' rights (American politics)--History--19th century. Political culture--History--United States--19th century. Political parties--History--United States--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--1849-1877. United States--Politics and government--1845-1849. United States--Politics and government--1841-1845.