Slavery and the Union, 1789-1833 / Douglas Egerton -- The market revolution / John Larson -- Slavery and the old South / Larry Hudson -- Planters, plain folk, and poor Whites in the old South / Charles Bolton -- Humanitarian reform and antislavery / James B. Stewart -- Women in the antebellum North / Teresa Murphy -- Women in the old South / Michelle Gillespie -- The road to secession / Michael Morrison -- The Republican triumph / John Ashworth -- And the war came / Daniel Crofts -- Saving the Union / Kevin Gannon -- War military campaigns : the Union / Carol Reardon -- War military campaigns : the Confederacy / Steven Woodworth -- The Confederate homefront / Mary DeCredico -- Emancipation / Joseph P. Reidy -- Defining Reconstruction / O. Vernon Burton, David Herr, and Matthew Chaney -- The politics of Reconstruction / Michael Perman -- The economics of Reconstruction / Peter A. Coclanis and Scott Marler -- Southern labor and Reconstruction / Tracy MacKenzie -- Northern women during the age of emancipation / Nina Silber -- Southern women during the age of emancipation / Jeannie Whayne -- The legacy of Confederate defeat / Gaines M. Foster -- Reconstruction and the nation / Heather Richardson.