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From eminent, prize-winning historian William W. Freehling, this is the masterful, definitive account of how the Old South started the Civil War. Freehling traces the development of Southern sentiment for disunion after 1854, but shows how fortuitous events, after Lincoln's election as President in 1860, allowed a tiny minority to lead the South into war and succession.

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Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln have typically focused on his experiences in the White House. In Becoming Lincoln, historian William Freehling instead emphasizes the prewar years, revealing how Lincoln came to be the extraordinary leader who would guide America through its most bitter chapter.

This provocative collection of essays, all of them new of thoroughly revised, synthesizes thirty years of Freehling's writing and reflection on the nature of slavery and the causes of the Civil War. He offers a fascinating look at subjects such as the nonradical nature of the American Revolution, as seen in the Founding Fathers' chary manner in promoting the antislavery cause.

In the first volume of his long-awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, eminent historian William W. Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776-1854.

A collection of the seven surviving speeches and public letters of the greatest southern debate over disunion, providing today's reader with a unique window into a moment of American crisis.

When William Freehling's Prelude to Civil War first appeared in 1965 it was immediately hailed as a brilliant study of the origins of the American Civil War. Three decades later, its importance remains undiminished and is still considered one of the most significant studies in its field. This vivid description of a society on the brink powerfully conveys the combustive social elements of the Old South, as well as the political manoeuvring and ...

Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, or to the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, a leading authority on the Civil War era offers a critical supplementary viewpoint. William Freehling argues that 450, 000 Union troops from the South--especially border state whites and southern blacks--helped cost the Confederacy the war. In addition, when the sou...

From eminent, prize-winning historian William W. Freehling, this is the masterful, definitive account of how the Old South started the Civil War. Freehling traces the development of Southern sentiment for disunion after 1854, but shows how fortuitous events, after Lincoln's election as President in 1860, allowed a tiny minority to lead the South into war and succession.

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