Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina
Planters of S.C. went from a prosperous life to a world of economic distress, guilt over slavery, and apprehension of slave rebellion. Details of how this led the political leaders to states rights doctrines

American Civil War Documents

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Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860
A rich new perspective on the events leading up to the Civil War and will prove an invaluable tool for understanding the central crisis in American politics.

Fugitive Slave Act 1850
The Crittendon Compromise (1860)
USA Census 1860
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address (1861)
Ordinances of Secession
Declarations of Causes of Seceding States - South Carolina
Declarations of Causes of Seceding States - Mississippi
Declarations of Causes of Seceding States - Georgia
Declarationa of Causes of Seceding States - Texas
South Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States
Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention
Speech of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention
First Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
Second Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862 on the Union defeat during the Peninsula Campaign
Davis, Varina: Christmas in the Confederate White House
Cordley, Richard: The Lawrence Massacre, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
Albert Underwood's Civil War Diary
Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 5 July 1864
The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address (1865)
Historical Documents of the Army of Northern Virginia
Letter from Karl Mark to Abraham Lincoln

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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Whether we agree with Jefferson Davis or not, knowledge of his point of view is essential to understanding the causes of the Civil War. The forward by McPherson helps to give balance and explanation.

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Civil War Timeline
Women in the War
State Battle Maps
Civil War Summary
Civil War Cooking
Civil War Submarines
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Kids Zone Underground Railroad

Kindle Available The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott	A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 An excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. The most important abolitionist and proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War	Kindle Available Bye Bye Ms. American Empire -- Can We Talk About Seccession Now? It's been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. Book Review
Lindle Available The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America Go behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis.	Reconstruction after the Civil War Chicago History of US Civilization Praised for cutting through the controversial scholarship and popular myths of the time to provide an accurate account of the role of former slaves during this period in American history	Kindle Available Nothing but Freedom Emancipation and Its Legacy Insights into the relatively neglected debates over fencing laws and hunting and fishing rights in the postemancipation South, and into the solidarity of the low-country black community
Kindle Available Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 An analysis of all aspects and particularly of the commercialism of black slaveowning debunks the myth that black slaveholding was a benevolent institution based on kinship, and explains the transition of black masters from slavery to paid labor.	Kindle Available The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 Zarefsky analyzes the rhetoric of the speeches, showing how Lincoln and Douglas chose their arguments and initiated a debate that shook the nation. Their eloquent, statesmanlike discussion of the morality of slavery illustrates the masterful use of rhetorical strategies and tactics in the public forum: a form of discourse that has nearly disappeared from the political scene today	Kindle Available Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln The definative book on the Lincoln Assassination, and the escape of John Wilkes Booth. not only does the author give a clear and concise accounting, he takes us out of the vacuum and explains the minute details of the very knotted relationships between the conspirators, and the links of the Confederate underground to Canada and back.
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