The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

7 best books like The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (David M. Potter): Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Battle Cry of Freedom, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, Henry Clay: The Essential American

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

Author	Fred Anderson
ISBN	0375706364

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...

Battle Cry of Freedom

Author

James M. McPherson

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Author	C. Vann Woodward
ISBN	0195146905

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this...

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Author	Eric Foner
ISBN	0393066185

From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives...

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0679736883

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

Author	Sean Wilentz
ISBN	0393058204

In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians...

Henry Clay: The Essential American

Author

David S. Heidler

The epic life and times of one of the most important political figures in our history.
 
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator and leader whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary...