Essays on American Antebellum politics, 1840-1860

"Politics seem to enter into everything": political culture in the North, 1840-1860 / William E. Gienapp

The dimensions of voter partisan constancy in presidential elections from 1840 to 1860 / Thomas B. Alexander

Winding roads to recovery: the Whig Party from 1844 to 1848 / Michael F. Holt

The meaning of nativism and the crisis of the Union: the Know-Nothing movement in the Antebellum North / Stephen E. Maizlish

The surge of Republican power: partisan antipathy, American social conflict, and the coming of the Civil War / Joel H. Silbey.