Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.
The slave power conspiracy revisited: United States presidents and filibustering, 1848-1861 / Robert E. May -- "Freedom and liberty first, and the Union afterwards": state rights and the Wisconsin Republican party, 1854-1861 / Michael J. McManus -- Aging statesmen and the statesmanship of an earlier age: the generational roots of the Constitutional Union party / Peter Knupfer -- Blackface minstrelsy and the construction of race in nineteenth-century America / Louis S. Gerteis -- Who freed the slaves? emancipation and its meaning / Ira Berlin -- Quandaries of command: Ulysses S. Grant and black soldiers / Brooks D. Simpson -- Quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? reunion and race in the memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913 / David W. Blight