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This text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Prologue
• The Setting of Conflict
• Part 1 The Coming of War
• Chapter 1 American Modernization, 1800-1860
• Chapter 2 The Antebellum South
• Chapter 3 The Ideological Conflict over Slavery
• Chapter 4 Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850
• Chapter 5 Filibusters, Fugitives, and Nativists
• Chapter 6 Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party
• Chapter 7 The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859
• Chapter 8 The Critical Year, 1859-1860
• Chapter 9 Secession and the Coming of War
• Part 2 The Civil War
• Chapter 10 A Brothers' War: The Upper South
• Chapter 11 Mobilizing for War
• Chapter 12 The Balance Sheet of War
• Chapter 13 The War at Home and Abroad
• Chapter 14 The Springtime of Northern Hope
• Chapter 15 Jackson and Lee Strike Back
• Chapter 16 Slavery and the War: Northern Politics, 1861-1862
• Chapter 17 The First Turning Point: Antietam and Emancipation
• Chapter 18 The Winter of Northern Discontent
• Chapter 19 The Second Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
• Chapter 20 War Issues and Politics in 1863
• Chapter 21 Behind the Lines
• Chapter 22 Wartime Reconstruction and the Freedpeople
• Chapter 23 Military Stalemate, 1864
• Chapter 24 The Third Turning Point: The Election of 1864
• Chapter 25 The End of the Confederacy
• Part 3 Reconstruction
• Chapter 26 The Problems of Peace
• Chapter 27 The Origins of "Radical Reconstruction"
• Chapter 28 Reconstruction and the Crisis of Impeachment
• Chapter 29 The First Grant Administration
• Chapter 30 The Southern Question, 1869-1872
• Chapter 31 Social and Economic Reconstruction
• Chapter 32 The Retreat from Reconstruction
• Chapter 33 The New South Epilogue

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

James M. McPherson is the author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which won a Pulitzer Prize in history, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, a Lincoln Prize winner. He is the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he also lives.

His newest book, entitled Abraham Lincoln, celebrates the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth with a short, but detailed look at this president's life. (Bowker Author Biography)