A House Divided The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America [Paperback]

Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wellss A House Divided unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of research, this accessible and readable text introduces readers toboth the war and the Reconstruction period, and how Americans lived during this time of great upheaval in the country's history. Designed for a variety of subjects and teaching styles, this text not only looks at the Civil War from a historical perspective, but also analyzes its ramifications on the United States and American identities through the present day. This second edition has been updated throughout, incorporating new scholarship from recent studies on the Civil War era, and includes additional photographs and maps (now incorporated throughout the text), updated bibliographies, and a supplementary companion website.

Introduction: War: The Red Animal

Chapter One: Slavery and the Long-Term Roots of the Civil War

Chapter Two: The Sectional Crisis, 1830-1850

Chapter Three: The 1850s, Secession, and the Start of War

Chapter Four: The War Begins

Chapter Five: Organizing and Mobilizing War

Chapter Six: In the Grip of War

Chapter Seven: Turning Points

Chapter Eight: War on the Homefront

Chapter Nine: The Union Grinds toward Victory

Chapter Ten: Union Victory and African American Freedom

Chapter Eleven: Reconstruction Begins

Chapter Twelve: Collapse of Reconstruction

Chapter Thirteen: America in the Late Ninteenth-Century

A House Divided offers students of the Civil War era a sweeping interpretation of the defining crisis of Americas past that is readable and engaging from the first page to the last.

•  Don H. Doyle, University of South Carolinal’