The birth of the Grand Old Party : the Republicans' first generation
Robert Francis Engs (Editor), Randall M. Miller (Editor), James M. McPherson, Library Company of Philadelphia
This collection of six original essays by some of America's most distinguished historians of the Civil War era examines the origins and evolution of the Republican party over the course of its first generation.
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2002
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 202 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
9780812236743, 9780812218206, 0812236742, 0812218205
49553738
PrefaceIntroduction1 The Ideology of the Republican Party—Eric Foner2 Making and Mobilizing the Republican Party—Michael F. Holt3 War Is the Health of the Party: Republicans in the American Civil War—Phillip Shaw PaludanThe Genesis and Growth of the Republican Party: A Brief History4 Politics Purified: Religion and the Growth of Antislavery Idealism in Republican Ideology During the Civil War—Mark E. Neely, Jr.5 Defining Postwar Republicanism: Congressional Republicans and the Boundaries of Citizenship—Jean H. Baker6 The Reforging of a Republican Majority—Brooks D. SimpsonAfterword—James M. McPhersonSelect BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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