David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the cha

Analyzes the problems of slavery, expansion, sectionalism, and party politics that influenced mid-nineteenth-century America

A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and re

In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Var