David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the cha

Analyzes the problems of slavery, expansion, sectionalism, and party politics that influenced mid-nineteenth-century America

Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take con

Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.

A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and re