Looking for politics in private places, this study looks at the extent to which ordinary people in mid 19th century America were politically conscious. "Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguin…
Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life, and that political historians have gone to…
Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which proved to be the country's salvation: local civic pride, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and funding for the war, for exam…