Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Prologue: The Setting of Conflict Part One: The Coming of War Chapter One: American Modernization, 1800-1860 Chapter Two: The Antebellum South Chapter Three: The Ideological Conflict over Slavery Chapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850 Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and Nativists Chapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party Chapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859 Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860 Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of War Part Two: The Civil War Chapter Ten: A Brothers' War: The Upper South Chapter Eleven: Mobilizing for War Chapter Twelve: The Balance Sheet of War Chapter Thirteen: The War at Home and Abroad Chapter Fourteen: The Springtime of Northern Hope Chapter Fifteen: Jackson and Lee Strike Back Chapter Sixteen: Slavery and the War: Northern Politics, 1861-1862 Chapter Seventeen: The First Turning Point: Antietam and Emancipation Chapter Eighteen: The Winter of Northern Discontent Chapter Nineteen: TheSecond Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga Chapter Twenty: War Issues and Politics in 1863 Chapter Twenty-One: Behind the Lines Chapter Twenty-Two: Wartime Reconstruction and the Freedpeople Chapter Twenty-Three: Military Stalemate, 1864 Chapter Twenty-Four: The Third Turning Point: The Election of 1864 Chapter Twenty-Five: The End of the Confederacy Part Three: Reconstruction Chapter Twenty-Six: The Problems of Peace Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Origins of "Radical Reconstruction" Chapter Twenty-Eight: Reconstruction and the Crisis of Impeachment Chapter Twenty-Nine: The First Grant Administration Chapter Thirty: The Making of the New Regime in the South, 1869-1872 Chapter Thirty-One: Social and Economic Reconstruction Chapter Thirty-Two: The Retreat from Reconstruction Chapter Thirty-Three: The New SouthEpilogue

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis 86 Professor of American History at Princeton University where he has taught since 1962. He received his BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958 and his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Scaver Institute Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. In 1999, McPherson received the Public Humanities Award of the New Jersey Council of the Humanities.