List of maps, tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Note
Introduction
1. Historical Background
Chronological table
Historiography/historians
2. Documents and Resources
Founding documents
Politics
Social and economic factors
Military strategy
Primary documents
Judge Thomas Ruffin: North Carolina v. Mann, 1829
Thomas Dew: Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1831-32
Frederick Law Olmsted: A Journey in the Back Country, 1860
William Lloyd Garrison: The Liberator, 1 January 1831
The Seneca Falls Declaration, 19 July 1848
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Fugitive Slave Laws, 3 May 1851
Frederick Douglass: Fourth of July Address, 1852
Andrew Jackson: Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, 10 December 1832
Roger Taney: Dred Scott v. Sandford, 6 March 1857
Abraham Lincoln: The 'House Divided' Speech, 17 June 1858
South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession, 24 December 1860
Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address, 18 February 1861
Alexander Stephens: Address on the Confederate Constitution, 21 March 1861
Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress, 4 July 1861
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech on Reconstruction, 18 December 1865
Andrew Johnson: Second Annual Message to Congress, 3 December 1866
Frederick Douglass: Speech to Republican National Convention, 1876
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn
Herman Melville: Shiloh: A Requiem
Walt Whitman: O Captain! my Captain!
Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is Divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest
Emily Dickinson: Ample Make this Bed
Emily Dickinson: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
Julie Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Spiritual: Nobody Knows the Trouble I Seen
3. Biographies, Glossary and References
Biographies
Glossary
Annotated bibliography
Index