Product Description: Robert W. Johannsen, professor emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of the leading Jacksonian- and Civil War-era historians of his generation. Works such as his "Stephen A. Douglas" and "To the Halls of the Montezumas" have cemented his place in period scholarship...read more

Product Description: A collection of sixteen documents designed for use in in courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction . Unlike many such collections, this book contains lengthy, sometimes complete documents rather than short snippets. By reading these documents, students will be able to see the issues as the people at the time did and will better understand that tragic period...read more

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Product Description: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared his hatred for the institution of slavery, likening his feelings of opposition to those of the abolitionists. Although the fact that Lincoln always disliked slavery is indisputable, the idea that he always opposed it with the zeal and fervor of the abolitionists remains questionable...read more

Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a wide range of other sources, the author explores the cultural meaning of the Mexican War, an intensely popular war, for mid-nineteenth-century America (view table of contents)