The American Civil War : explorations and reconsiderations / edited by Susan-Mary Grant and Brian Holden Reid ; with an introduction by James M. McPherson.

The state of the union, 1776-1860 / Donald Ratcliffe -- Southern secession in 1860-1 / Bruce Collins -- Abraham Lincoln, the presidency , and the mobilization of union sentiment / Richard Carwardine -- Jefferson Davis and the confederacy / Martin Crawford -- The first on the modern wars? / Josephy G. Dawson III -- Command and leadership in the Civil War, 1861-5 / Brian Holden Reid -- The experience of the Civil War: men at arms / Andrew R. Haughton -- Fighting for freedom: African-American soldiers in the Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- The fight for black suffrage in the War of the rebellion / Robert Cook -- 'What did we go to war for?' Confederate emancipation and its meaning / Bruce Levine -- Slavery and emancipation: the African-American experience during the Civil War / David Turley -- Capitalism and the Civil War / John Ashworth -- Individual rights and constitutional powers: the impact of the Civil War / Pat Lucie -- From union to nation / The Civil War and the development of American nationalism / Susan-Mary Grant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.