Political parties and American political development: from the age of Jackson to the age of Lincoln

The Democratic Party, 1828-1860

The Antimasonic and Know Nothing Parties

The election of 1840, voter mobilization, and the emergence of the second American party system: a reappraisal of Jacksonian voting behavior

Winding roads to recovery: the Whig party from 1844 to 1848

The mysterious disappearance of the American Whig Party

The politics of impatience: the origins of Know Nothingism

The new political hisotry and the Civil War Era

Two roads to Sumter

The problem of Civil War causation

Abraham Lincoln and the politics of Union.