American Civil War Bibliography - Causes of The War

Causes of The War

• Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. (1995)
• Ayers, Edward L. What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. Norton, 2005. 222 pp.
• Craven, Avery, "The Coming of the War Between the States," Journal of Southern History 2 (August 1936): 30-63; in JSTOR
• Donald, David. "An Excess of Democracy: The Civil War and the Social Process" in David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, 2d ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), 209-35.
• Foner, Eric. "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions." In Beyond the Civil War Synthesis: Political Essays of the Civil War Era, edited by Robert P. Swierenga. 1975.
• Helper, Hinton Rowan (1857), The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, New York: Burdick Brothers.
• Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. (1978) emphasis on political parties and voters
• Olsen, Christopher J. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860" (2000), cultural interpretation
• Potter, David Morris, edited and completed by Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. (1976).
• Randall, James G. "A Blundering Generation," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 27#1 (June 1940): 3-28 in JSTOR
• Stampp, Kenneth M. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (1990)
• Stampp, Kenneth M. And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 1950.