The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War, Volume 2Stampp considers the American concept of a perpetual union, two historiographical controversies about the nature of slavery, the main elements of Republican Party thought in the antebellum period, and the causes of the Civil War. |
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... Fort Sumter which confronted him as soon as he became President . I found consistency between his clear determination to pre- serve the Union by force if necessary and his decision to send supplies to Fort Sumter - a decision that made ...
... Fort Sumter which confronted him as soon as he became President . I found consistency between his clear determination to pre- serve the Union by force if necessary and his decision to send supplies to Fort Sumter - a decision that made ...
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Essays on the Background of the Civil War Kenneth Milton Stampp. hostilities at Fort Sumter , while others contended that the Sumter episode was precisely what he had hoped to avoid . The debate over Lincoln's intentions began during the ...
Essays on the Background of the Civil War Kenneth Milton Stampp. hostilities at Fort Sumter , while others contended that the Sumter episode was precisely what he had hoped to avoid . The debate over Lincoln's intentions began during the ...
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... Fort Sumter to a delegation of Virginia Unionists if they " would break up their convention , without any row or nonsense . " See Potter , Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis , pp . 353-58 ; Nevins , War for the Union , I , pp ...
... Fort Sumter to a delegation of Virginia Unionists if they " would break up their convention , without any row or nonsense . " See Potter , Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis , pp . 353-58 ; Nevins , War for the Union , I , pp ...
Contents
The Concept of a Perpetual Union | 3 |
The Search for | 39 |
A Humanistic Perspective | 72 |
Copyright | |
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