This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with union, concord and bonds of sympat

In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reac

While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery-with its various

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a 'nation' meant during the first fifty years of the country's existence.

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipati