| 1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination? |
| 2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region |
| 3. A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology |
| 4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement |
| 5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality |
| 6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 |
| 7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55 |
| 8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 |
| 9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? |
| 10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis |
| 11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? |
| 12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies |
| 13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 |
| 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 |
| 15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy |
| 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War |
| 17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War |
| 18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad |
| 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings |
| 20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic |
| 21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction |
| 22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President |
| 23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor |
| 24. Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" |
| 25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" |
| 26. Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory |
| 27. Legacies of the Civil War |
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