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