This first-ever volume to comprehensively explore President Abraham Lincoln s ties to the American West brings together a variety of scholars and experts who offer a fascinating look at the sixteenth president s lasting legacy in the territory beyond the Mississippi River. Editor Richard W. Etulain s extensive introductory essay treats these western connections from Lincoln s early reactions to Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War in the 1840s, through the 1850s, and during his presidency, providing a framework for the nine essays that follow. Each of these essays offers compelling insight into...
This first-ever volume to comprehensively explore President Abraham Lincoln s ties to the American West brings together a variety of scholars and expe...
"Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War" examines the developments between 1846 and 1861 that pushed the nation to war to see what they reveal about the North, the South, the people leading them, and the issues separating them.
As shown here, in the decade and a half before the actual outbreak of the war, the mostly southern Democratic Party's fortunes veered from a presidential election victory in 1852 to the shocking loss of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 an event that marked the coming of age of the young antislavery Republican Party. In examining that sharp reversal,...
"Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War" examines the developments between 1846 and 1861 that pushed the nation to war to see...
