• Slavery, states' rights, and secession commissioners
• The first wave
• The South Carolinians
• The Alabamiams
• The mission to Virginia
• Conclusion: apostles of disunion, apostles of racism
• Afterword: apostles of disunion fifteen years later.

Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states' secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
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• PART I: INTRODUCTION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WORDSMITH PART II: THE DOCUMENTS Becoming a Republican Leading the Republican Party From Secession to War Marching South Toward Emancipation A War for Freedom and Union Defending a New Birth of Freedom 'To Finish the Work We Are In'.
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This collection, skillfully edited by Michael P. Johnson, offers students the essential Lincoln in a brief and accessible format that makes this a must-assign edition for courses covering the antebellum period, slavery, and the Civil War. From famous documents like the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the second inaugural address to crucial memoranda and letters, it reveals the development of Lincoln's views on all the critical issues of the day, including free labor, antebellum politics and the Republican party, slavery, secession, the Civil War, and emancipation. Significantly streamlined for the second edition to a more student-friendly length, the volume retains its successful format: documents are organized thematically and chronologically, with editorial headnotes that provide just enough context for students to understand the significance of each selection. In addition to Johnson's widely praised biographical introduction, a chronology, maps and pictures, questions for consideration, selected bibliography, and a comprehensive index all enhance students' understanding of this crucial period -- and this crucial figure -- in U.S. history.
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• Confederates in the attic
• North Carolina: Cats of the Confederacy
• South Carolina: In the better half of the world
• South Carolina: Shades of gray
• Kentucky: Dying for Dixie
• Virginia: A farb of the heart
• Tennessee: At the Foote of the master
• Tennessee: The ghost marks of Shiloh
• Mississippi: The Minié Ball pregnancy
• Virginia and beyond: The Civil Wargasm
• Georgia: Gone with the window
• Georgia: Still prisoners of war
• Alabama: Only living Confederate widow tells some
• Alabama: I had a dream
• Strike the tent.

Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. He joins "hardcore" reenactors; witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; finds that Andersonville Prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of an eccentric pilgrim. Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, this book brings alive old battlefields and new ones--classrooms, courts, country bars--where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.--From publisher description.