Pollard, E. A. A peculiar and noble type of civilization.
Stephens, A. H. The war for states rights.
Buchanan, J. Republican fanaticism as a cause of the Civil War.
Wilson, H. The slave power conspiracy.
Rhodes, J. F. Antecedents of the American Civil War.
Beard, C. A. The approach of the irrepressible conflict.
Owsley, F. L. The irrepressible conflict.
Osterweis, R. G. South Carolina and the idea of southern nationalism.
Ramsdell, C. W. The natural limits of slavery expansion.
Randall, J. G. The blundering generation.
Craven, A. The 1840s and the democratic process.
Elkins, S. Slavery and the intellectual.
Nevins, A. The ordeal of the Union.
Genovese, E. The origins of slavery expansionism.
Foner, E. Slavery and the Republican ideology.
Geyl, P. The American Civil War and the problem of inevitability.
Potter, D. M. Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.
Suggestions for additional reading (p. 322-324).
