The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War: 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. The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.

• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
• Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
• Battle Cry of Freedom: Volume 1
• A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
• Battle Cry of Freedom: Volume 2
• Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945