Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a g
Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territorie
Excerpt from The Crisis, and What It Demands! Speech of Hon.: T. Polk, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 14, 1861 What is the c