The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era

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Notes preface 1. Byron E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger, eds., Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001), 1. The event was the annual convention of the Organization of American Historians. 2. Rick Shenkman, ‘‘Reporter’s Notebook: Highlights from the 2004 OAH Convention,’’ History News Network, March 26, 2004, . 3. Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), esp. 153–56. 4. Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838–183 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991). 5. Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). 6. Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983; New York: Fordham University Press, 1998). 7. Michael F. Holt, for example, said the book ‘‘integrate[s] social and political history’’ in ‘‘An Elusive Synthesis: Northern Politics during the Civil War,’’ in Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, ed. James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), 128. 8. Among these were Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely Jr., The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), and The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987); Harold Holzer and Mark E. Neely Jr., The Lincoln Family Album: Photographs from the Personal Collections of a Historic American Family (New York: Doubleday, 1990), Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art (New York: Orion Books, 1993), and The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000). chapter one 1. Edwin Havilland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume I: 1842–1867 (New York: New York University Press, 1961), 242. 2. Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838–183 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), esp. 145. 3. William E. Gienapp, ‘‘‘Politics Seem to Enter into Everything’: Political Culture in the North, 1840–1860,’’ in Essays in Antebellum American Politics , 1840–1860, ed. Stephen E. Maizlish and John J. Kushma (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1982), 15–69. 4. William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 8. 5. Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865–128 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 8. 6. The New Political Historians first called attention to such work. See especially Richard P. McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966), esp. 349–53. 7. Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 79. ‘‘Partisan imperative’’ is a term frequently used by Joel H. Silbey to describe the politics of the nineteenth century. 8. Ibid., 9–10. 9. Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census. 1860 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1862), 102–3. 10. Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Population of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census . . . , 4 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1864), 1:88–101. 11. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9 vols. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953–55), 1:202 n. For correspondence about the Old Soldier, see also pp. 203–5. 12. Mark E. Neely Jr., ed., The Extra Journal: Rallying the Whigs of Illinois, pamphlet and facsimile newspapers (Fort Wayne, Ind.: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, 1982). 13. Altschuler and Blumin acknowledge the cluttered election calendar on p. 4 of Rude Republic. For the original insight, see Roy F. Nichols, The Disruption of American Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1948; New York: Free Press, 1967), 20–21. 14. Altschuler and Blumin, Rude Republic, 19. 15. Altschuler and Blumin describe the political press as a source on pp. 4 and 12 of Rude Republic. 130 notes to pages 1–8 16. The irresistible term comes from Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World...