Asimov Isaac. Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1975 — 278 p — ISBN 978-0395202838, 0395202833An interpretive history of the major events, figures, issues, conflicts, and sectional divisions of the forty-five years preceding and leading to the Civil War and those of the War itself, concluding with the death of Lincoln.The beginning of division
Unionism versus States rights
The Virginia dynasty continues Florida
The era of good feeling?
The Missouri compromise
Colonies and tariffs
The Monroe doctrine
The five-man election
The tariff of abominations
The passing of the old
Andrew Jackson
The return Match
Democracy expands
The French and the Indians
The bank and reelection
Nullification
Uneasy borders
The abolitionists
Rebellion in Texas
Martin Van Buren
Rebellion in Canada
Log cabins and hard cider
From sea to shining sea
Tyler, too
Blacks, whites, and nativism
Texas and politics
Texas and war
Mexico
The last compromise
The New West
Midcentury
Clay and Webster
The fugitive slaves
Overseas
Collision course
Imperialism
Squatter sovereignty
Terror in Kansas
The last doughface
Politics in Kansas
The Union divides
Abraham Lincoln
The growing imbalance
The crucial election
Secession
The Confederate States of America
The war begins
Fort Sumter
Choosing sides
Bull run
Getting ready
The rising fury
Reluctant warriors
Unconditional surrender
Pinching the Mississippi
Iron ships
McClellan fails
Robert E. Lee
Pope fails
Counter invasion
Burnside fails
Hooker fails
Turning point
Ulysses S. Grant
Rosecrans fails
The giants clash
Renomination
Reelection
Victory — and death
Table of dates
Index