BlueandGrayl
First Sergeant
- Joined
- May 27, 2018
- Location
- Corona, California
Right now, I have read four Civil War-related books about antebellum politics such as America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich (2013), On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History by John C. Waugh (2003), Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850 by Holman Hamilton (1964) and Texas, New Mexico and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis by Mark Joseph Steigmeier (1996). I am about to get The Fate of Their Country (1999) and The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Philip Holt (2003). All of them covered not just the legislative back and forth between the North and the South but also Texas sending a militia to claim Santa Fe and half of New Mexico thus almost sparking an early Civil War no less which is arguably the most interesting aspect of what was going on in America prior to the Compromise of 1850. I am currently looking for books that cover not just antebellum politics of that period but also the rapid changes and anyone is free to post suggestions.