Originally published as: The American Civil War : explorations and reconsiderations. New York : Longman, 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index
One and inseparable. The state of the Union, 1776-1860 / Donald Ratcliffe -- And the war came-- . Southern secession in 1860-1861 / Bruce Collins -- The first of the modern wars? / Joseph G. Dawson III -- The experience of the Civil War : men at arms / Andrew Haughton -- Command and leadership in the Civil War, 1861-1865 / Brian Holden Reid -- Abraham Lincoln, the presidency, and the mobilization of Union sentiment / Richard Carwardine -- Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy / Martin Crawford -- Capitalism and the Civil War / John Ashworth -- Emancipation : race and gender in the Civil War. Fighting for freedom : African-American soldiers in the Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- The fight for black suffrage in the War of the Rebellion / Robert Cook -- "What did we go to war for?" Confederate emancipation and its meaning / Bruce Levine -- Slavery and emancipation : the African-American experience during the Civil War / David Turley -- "To bind up the nation's wounds" : women and the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- Legacy. From union to nation? The Civil War and the development of American nationalism / Susan-Mary Grant -- Individual rights and constitutional powers : the impact of the Civil War / Pat Lucie