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Introduction: freedom and democracy in "the people's contest": a complicated role for Congress in a complicated war |
Paul Finkelman |
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A martyr, a speaker, and impending crisis: a prologue to the election of 1860 |
Jonathan Earle |
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"Shatter this accursed union": the fire-eaters in Congress in 1860 |
Eric Walther |
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"These Zouaves will never support us": cowardice, Congress and the First Battle of Bull Run |
Lesley J. Gordon |
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The summer of '62: Congress, slavery, and a revolution in Federal law |
Paul Finkelman |
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The radicals' war: how the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War tried to shape the course of the Civil War |
Fergus M. Bordewich |
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We are coming, Father Abraham, but how will you pay for us? |
Jenny Bourne |
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Why we fight: German American revolutionists confront slavery and secession |
Mischa Honeck |
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Make mine an abolition war: George Luther Stearns, Frederick Douglass, and the Black soldier |
L. Diane Barnes |
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Military emancipation before the Emancipation Proclamation: overcoming structural obstacles |
Chandra Manning |
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Negotiating Black manhood citizenship through Civil War volunteerism and patriotism: Cincinnati's Black Brigade |
Nikki M. Taylor |
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Introduction: freedom and democracy in "the people's contest": a complicated role for Congress in a complicated war |
Paul Finkelman |
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A martyr, a speaker, and impending crisis: a prologue to the election of 1860 |
Jonathan Earle |
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"Shatter this accursed union": the fire-eaters in Congress in 1860 |
Eric Walther |