Prologue : The setting of conflict -- Part one : The coming of war. American modernization, 1800-1860 -- The antebellum South -- The ideological conflict over slavery -- Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850 -- Filibusters, fugitives, and nativists -- Kansas and the rise of the Republican Party -- The deepening crisis, 1857-1859 -- The critical year, 1859-1860 -- Secession and the coming of war -- Part two : The Civil War. A brothers' war : the Upper South -- Mobilizing for war -- The balance sheet of war -- The war at home and abroad -- The springtime of Northern hope -- Jackson and Lee strike back -- Slavery and the war : Northern politics, 1861-1862 -- The first turning point : Antietam and emancipation -- The winter of Northern discontent -- The second turning point : Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga -- War issues and politics in 1863 -- Behind the lines -- Wartime reconstruction and freedmen -- Military stalemate, 1864 -- The third turning point : the reelection of Lincoln -- The end of the Confederacy -- Part three : Reconstruction. The problems of peace -- The origins of "radical" Reconstruction -- Reconstruction and the crisis of impeachment -- The first Grant administration -- The Southern question, 1869-1872 -- Social and economic Reconstruction -- The retreat from Reconstruction -- The new South -- Epilogue
pt. 1. The coming of war -- pt. 2. The Civil War -- pt. 3. Reconstruction

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