Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The emergence of a democratic press
  • Impeding civilization: the Brooks-Sumner incident
  • The Dred Scott decision and a society of laws
  • Kansas and the Lecompton constitution: does the majority rule?
  • John Brown's raid: violence in a republican society
  • Lincoln's election: could a republican lead the republic?
  • Firing on Fort Sumter: a republic at war with itself
  • Conclusion: the shattered republic.