The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

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 secession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.

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• The Search for Order, 1877-1920
• Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)
• The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
• Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (The Oxford History of the United States, Vol. 5)
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
• Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States |v X)