The Road to Civil War Timeline
1860 U.S. Demographics Interactive Map
Article - Origins of the American Civil War
Article - Slavery in the United States
Website - Slavery in the North
Article - Abolitionism (international)
Article - Abolitionism in the United States
List of U.S. Abolitionists and Abolitionist Groups
List of U.S. Slave Court Cases
List of U.S. Presidents
List of U.S. Congresses
List of U.S. Supreme Court justices
Supreme Court Justices during the Lincoln administration
Territorial Expansion of the United States
List of Incorporated Territories in the United States
List of U.S. States by Admission Date
List of U.S. Protectionist Tariffs
1860 Census free/slave populations
Article - Evaluation of Georgia secession (Georgia Historical Society)
Article - Turley, Jonathan. Uncivil Action, Was Lincoln Wrong on Secession?
Article - The Ownership of Fort Sumter in 1861
APUSH website - The Politics of Sectionalism
Article - Reflections on David Potter's The Impending Crisis, part 1 (includes some Civil War historiography) part 2
Primary Sources (website collections):
American Civil War documents
Causes of the Civil War (collected primary sources)
University of Michigan searchable library of government documents
Documenting the American South @ U.N.C.
Cornell University: Samuel J. May antislavery collection
Library of Congress (LOC) Missouri Compromise sources
LOC Nullification Proclamation
LOC Compromise of 1850 sources
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
LOC Kansas-Nebraska Act sources
LOC Dred Scott Decision sources
Article on Bleeding Kansas primary sources
The Attack on Fort Sumter official sources
Primary Sources - Pre-secession (individual):
Fitzhugh, George. Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society (1854) HTML text
Fitzhugh, George. Cannibals All!, or Slaves without Masters (1857) HTML text
"Failure of Free Societies" (review of Sociology for the South) Southern Literary Messenger, March 1855. (gif images)
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglas - Written by Himself (1845) (online HTML text)
Craft, Ellen and William. Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) (online HTML text)
Jackson, Andrew. Proclamation Regarding Nullification, 1832.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852) (online text)
Hentz, Caroline Lee. The Planter's Northern Bride (1852) (A pro-slavery response to Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Helper, Hinton Roland. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It (online 1859 compendium version)
Mitchell, William M. The Under-Ground Railroad (1852) (text)
Still, William. The Underground Railroad (1872) (text)
1860 Slave state slave owner statistics
Harper's Weekly 1861 - 1865 (New York)
Debow's Review 1846 - 1869 (Louisiana)
Valley of the Shadow website (Franklin Co, Pa & Augusta Co, Va)
Primary Sources - Secession (individual):
Declarations of Causes of Secession of Five States (SC,MS,TX,GA,VA)
Secession Quick Quotes
Secession Commissioners
Florida Declarations of Causes of Secession
Tally of Secession Causes
Lawrence Keitt: On Denying Tariffs as a Secession Cause
Albert Gallatin Brown: On the Expansion of Slavery
Notes of the Georgia secession conference
Notes of the Virginia secession conference
Alabama. http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/smithwr/smith.html
Arkansas. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofbothses00arka
Florida. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofproceed00flor
Georgia. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofpublics00geor
Mississippi. http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/msconven/msconven.html
Missouri (1861). http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=z-8LAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader
Missouri. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofmissour00miss
North Carolina. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofconven00nort
South Carolina. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofconvent00soutrich
Tennessee Special Assembly. http://www.archive.org/details/publicactsofstat00tenn
Texas. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofsecessi00texarich
Virginia. http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/vadel61/vadel61.html
R.B. Rhett's "The
Ad-dress of the people of South Carolina, assembled in Convention, to
the people of the Slaveholding States of the United States"
Robert Toombs Farewell to Congress speech
L. W. Spratt (ed. Charleston Mercury) "The Philosophy of Secession, a Southern View"
Comparison of the U.S. Constitution and the Confederate Constitution
Abraham Lincoln Papers
Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings website
Lincoln, Abraham. Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill. Jan. 27, 1837
Lincoln, Abraham. Peoria, Illinois Speech Oct. 16, 1854
Lincoln, Abraham. House Divided Speech June 16, 1858
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (online text) Autumn, 1858
Lincoln, Abraham. Cooper Union Address Feb. 27, 1860
Video - Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln delivering the Cooper Union Address (1 hr 30 min)
Lincoln, Abraham. First Inaugural Address March 4, 1861
N.Y.. Times article, May 16, 1861, Fugitive Slave data from 1860 census
Online Documentaries
The Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion: A crash course (14 min)
The Abolitionists (American Experience) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (2 hours, 45 min)
Abolitionists (1820s - 1838, 1838 - 1854, 1854 - Emancipation)
Online Lectures
The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight (Yale Lecture Series, 27 fifty minute videos)
"I will be heard: The Legacy of William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator" (43 mins)
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