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The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography

Potter, David M.
The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography
Excerpt from The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 19 November 1947This point would seem less significant in actuality, I suppose, than it does nominally, especially when one considers how much the historical literature of Great Britain would be impoverished without the scholarship of Oxford, but even as a nominal arrangement, it still seems paradoxical that th...

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The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography

Potter, David M.
The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography
Excerpt from The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 19 November 1947This point would seem less significant in actuality, I suppose, than it does nominally, especially when one considers how much the historical literature of Great Britain would be impoverished without the scholarship of Oxford, but even as a nominal arrangement, it still seems paradoxical that th...

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The Impending Crisis

Potter, David M.
The Impending Crisis
David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis r...

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People of Plenty

Potter, David M.
People of Plenty
America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a "people of plenty"--a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by a...

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Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis

Potter, David M.
Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis
Originally published in 1942, this perceptive and impartial analysis of one of the most baffling periods in American history--the months between the election of Lincoln and the fall of Fort Sumter--was a bold declaration of intellectual independence. David M. Potter revolted against the prevailing southern argument that Lincoln deliberately provoked the South into war to bring a violent end to slavery, arguing instead that the new president fo...

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