Origins of the American Civil War

The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, expansionism, sectionalism, and political party politics of the Antebellum Period.

Further reading

• Aptheker, Herbert American Negro Slave Revolts (1943)
• Ashworth, John
• Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1995)
• "Free labor, wage labor, and the slave power: republicanism and the Republican party in the 1850s," in Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (eds), The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880, pp. 128-46. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. (1996)
• Beard, Charles, and Mary Beard. The Rise of American Civilization. Two volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1927.
• Craven, Avery
• The Repressible Conflict, 1830-61 (1939)
• The Coming of the Civil War (1942)
• Donald, David; Randal, J.G., The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: D.C. Health and Company, 1961
• Fehrenbacher, Don E. Prelude to Greatness, Lincoln in the 1850s (New York, 1964 ed.).
• Foner, Eric
• Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: the Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press. (1970)
• Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press. (1986)
• "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions." In Beyond the Civil War Synthesis: Political Essays of the Civil War Era, edited by Robert P. Swieringa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.
• Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Genovese, Eugene D. (1965) The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South. New York: Pantheon.
• Hacker, Louis. The Triumph of American Capitalism: The Development of Forces in American History to the End of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940.
• Holt, Michael F. (1978) The Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: Wiley.
• Huston, James L. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
• Luraghi, Raimondo, "The Civil War and the Modernization of American Society: Social Structure and Industrial Revolution in the Old South Before and During the War," Civil War History XVIII (Sept. 1972).
• Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. "The North American Civil War" and "The Civil War in the United States" pp 57-83 in The Civil War in the United States. by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1961 New York: International Publishers.
• McPherson, James M.
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Ordeal by Fire: the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1982.
• Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Beacon Press, 1966.
• Moore, Wilbert E., "The Social Framework of Economic Development," in Ralph Braibanti and Joseph J. Spengler, eds., Tradition, Values and Socio-Economic Development (Durham, 1961).
• Nevins, Allan
• The Emergence of Lincoln, 2 vols. New York: Scribner's. (1950)
• Ordeal of the Union (4 vols.: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.), III.
• Potter, David (1976) The Impending Crisis 1848-1861. New York: Harper and Row.
• Randall, J. G. (1945) Lincoln the President: Springfield to Gettysburg, 2 vols. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode.
• Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. "The Causes of the Civil War" (1949)
• Stampp, Kenneth The Peculiar Institution (1956)
• de Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America (Alfred A. Knopf, 1945 )