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Ordeal by Fire : The Civil War and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780072317367 | 0072317361
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 6/30/2000
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Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.
Prologue: The Setting of ConflictPart One: The Coming of War
Part One: The Coming of WarChapter One: American Modernization, 1800-1860Chapter Two: The Antebellum SouthChapter Three: The Ideological Conflict over SlaveryChapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and NativistsChapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican PartyChapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of WarPart Two: The Civil... MORE
Chapter Two: The Antebellum SouthChapter Three: The Ideological Conflict over SlaveryChapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and NativistsChapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican PartyChapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of WarPart Two: The Civil... MORE
Chapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and NativistsChapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican PartyChapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of WarPart Two: The Civil... MORE
Chapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican PartyChapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of WarPart Two: The Civil... MORE
Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of WarPart Two: The Civil... MORE
Part Two: The Civil... MORE
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1962.
