Ecstatic nation : confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877 / Brenda Wineapple.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wineapple, Brenda
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Slavery > United States > History > 19th century. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States > History > 1849-1877. United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.

Table of Contents:

The end of Earth
1848-1861. Higher laws ; Who ain't a slave? ; One aggresses ; Democracy ; Sovereignty ; Revolutions never go backward ; The impending crisis ; A clank of metal
1861-1865. On to Richmond ; Battle cry of freedom ; This thing now never seems to stop ; The last full measure of devotion ; Fairly won ; Armed liberty ; And this is Richmond ; The simple, fierce deed
1865-1876. But half accomplished ; Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum ; Power ; Deep water ; Running from the past ; Westward the course of empire ; With the Ten Commandments in one hand ; Conciliation, or, The living.

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