United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
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- The road to disunion, William W. Freehling
- The Civil War, Jeffery Rogers Hummel, Part I
- The zealot and the emancipator, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom, H.W. Brands
- The caning of Charles Sumner, honor, idealism, and the origins of the Civil War, Williamjames Hull Hoffer
- Lincoln president-elect, Abraham Lincoln and the great secession winter 1860-1861, Harold Holzer
- America's great debate, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union, Fergus M. Bordewich
- Apostles of disunion, southern secession commissioners and the causes of the Civil War, Charles B. Dew
- The South was right, written by James R. Kennedy and Walter D. Kennedy
- Slavery and the American West, the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War, Michael A. Morrison
- The mortgage of America, the early end of U.S. independence, by William H. Rice
- Civil War soldiers, Reid Mitchell
- A just and generous nation, Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity, Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
- The origins of America's Civil War, Bruce Collins
- Lincoln and the abolitionists, John Quincy Adams, slavery, and the Civil War, Fred Kaplan
- The reintegration of American history, slavery and the Civil War, William W. Freehling
- The impending crisis, 1848-1861, by David M. Potter ; completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
- The slave power, its character, career, and probable designs : being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest, John E. Cairnes ; new introduction by Mark M. Smith
- Racial inequality, remnants of a troubled time
- Civil War in the making, 1815-1860
- Becoming Confederates, paths to a new national loyalty, Gary W. Gallagher
- Ordeal by fire, James M. McPherson
- The fate of their country, politicians, slavery extension, and the coming of the Civil War, Michael F. Holt
- A disease in the public mind, a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War, by Thomas Fleming
- Emancipating slaves, enslaving free men, a history of the American Civil War, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
- We have the war upon us, the onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861, William J. Cooper
- 1858, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the war they failed to see, Bruce Chadwick
- 1861, the Civil War awakening, Adam Goodheart
- A place called Appomattox, community at the crossroads of history, William Marvel ; with a new preface by the author
- A just and generous nation, Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity, Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
- South to freedom, runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War, Alice L. Baumgartner
- At the precipice, Americans north and south during the secession crisis, Shearer Davis Bowman
- The American Civil War, Gary W. Gallagher
- What this cruel war was over, soldiers, slavery, and the Civil War, Chandra Manning
- Lincoln über alles, dictatorship comes to America, John Avery Emison
- The scorpion's sting, antislavery and the coming of the Civil War, James Oakes
- The coming fury, Bruce Catton
- The war before the war, fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, Andrew Delbanco
- The caning, the assault that drove America to Civil War, Stephen Puleo
- Lincoln and the decision for war, the northern response to secession, Russell McClintock
- Year of meteors, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the election that brought on the Civil War, Douglas R. Egerton
- Gateway to freedom, the hidden history of America's fugitive slaves, Eric Foner
- Manifest destinies, America's westward expansion and the road to the Civil War, Steven E. Woodworth
- Ecstatic nation, confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877, Brenda Wineapple
- One man great enough, Abraham Lincoln's road to Civil War, John C. Waugh
- Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War, James Brewer Stewart
- War to the knife, bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861, Thomas Goodrich
- Ordeal of the Union
- The British gentry, the Southern planter, and the Northern family farmer, agriculture and sectional antagonism in North America, James L. Huston
- A disease in the public mind, a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War, Thomas Fleming
- Why the Civil War came, edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by David W. Blight [and others]
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