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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Gary W. Gallagher and Rachel A. Shelden 1 I Political Culture in Antebellum America Not So Strange Bedfellows: Northern and Southern Whigs in the Texas Annexation Controversy, 1844–1845 Rachel A. Shelden 11 Apotheosis of a Ruffian: The Murder of Bill Pool and American Political Culture Mark E. Neely Jr. 36 Public Women and Partisan Politics, 1840–1860 Jean Harvey Baker 64 II The Politics of the Secession Crisis The Southern Opposition and the Crisis of the Union Daniel W. Crofts 85 Reviving State Rights William W. Freehling 112 Where Was Henry Clay? President-Elect Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of the Union, 1860–1861 William J. Cooper 126 viii Contents III Parties and Federalism in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction “Come Weal, Come Woe, I Am with the Anti-Slavery Party”: Federalism and the Formation of the Pennsylvania Union Party, 1860–1864 Sean Nalty 143 Alabama’s Presidential Reconstruction Legislature J. Mills Thornton 167 The Fate of Northern Democrats after the Civil War: Another Look at the Presidential Election of 1868 Erik B. Alexander 188 Consider the Alternatives: Reassessing Republican Reconstruction Brooks D. Simpson 214 Works by Michael F. Holt 231 Notes on Contributors 233 Index 235 ...

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