The election of 1860 reconsidered /
The election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate in the bloodiest conflict the United States had ever seen. Despite its obvious importance, surprisin...
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Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Civil War in the North
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Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Election of 1860 Reconsidered""; ""1. The Political Organizer: Abraham Lincoln�s 1860 Campaign""; ""2. The 1860 Southern Sojourns of Stephen A. Douglas and the Irrepressible Separation""; ""3. A Forlorn Hope: Interpreting the Breckinridge Campaign as a Matter of Honor""; ""4. The Last True Whig: John Bell and the Politics of Compromise in 1860""; ""5. Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionist Response to the Election of 1860""
- ""6. Saving the Republic: Turnout, Ideology, and Republicanism in the Election of 1860""""7. The Election of 1860 and Political Realignment Theory: Indiana as a Case Study""; ""8. The View from Abroad: Europeans Look at the Election of 1860""; ""9. “An Inscrutable Election?�: The Historiography of the Election of 1860""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
