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"A collection of ... articles in American political history that originally appeared in Civil War history."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Part I. Historiography of the Civil War] Civil War synthesis in American political history (1964) / Joel H. Silbey. Causes of the American Civil War : recent interpretations and new directions (1974) / Eric Foner. Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 : a critical overview of recent trends and interpretations (1974) / Richard O. Curry. John Brown and his judges : a critique of the historical literature (1971) / Stephen B. Oates -- [Part II. Politics at the grass roots : elections and voters] Northern Democratic Party and the Congressional elections of 1858 (1973) / David E. Meerse. Ethnic voter and the first Lincoln election (1965) / Robert P. Swierenga. Rejected Republican incumbents in the 1866 Congressional nominating conventions : a study in Reconstruction politics (1973) / Lawrence N. Powell. Rout of radicalism : Republicans and the elections of 1867 (1972) / Michael Les Benedict. Republicans and Black suffrage in New York State : the grass roots response (1975) / Phyllis Frances Field -- [Part III. "Spirit of party" : Congress and roll call voting] Party and section : the Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1972) / Gerald W. Wolff. Unconscious "spirit of party" in the Confederate Congress (1972) / Richard E. Beringer. Bloc and party in the United States Senate : 1861-1863 (1967) / Alan G. Bogue. Who were the Senate radicals? (1966) / Edward L. Gambill. "Radical" political and economic policies : the Senate, 1873-1877 (1968) / Glenn M. Linden -- [Part IV. Patronage, religion, and race : the ethnoreligious dimension of politics] Political patronage and ethnic groups : foreign-born in the United States Customhouse Service, 1821-1861 (1971) / Leonard Tabachnik. Religious and occupational roots of party identification : Illinois and Indiana in the 1870's (1970) / Richard Jensen. Negroes in the First and Second Reconstructions of the South (1967) / August Meier -- [Part V. Ideology and politics] Slavery and the slave power : a crucial distinction (1969) / Larry Gara. William Lloyd Garrison and antislavery unity : a reappraisal / Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Aims and impact of Garrisonian abolitionism, 1840-1860 (1969) / James B. Stewart.