- Introduction: The Three Sides of the American Civil War
- 1. The Destruction of the Past
- 2. Thomas Hart Benton’s Failed Compromise
- 3. Building the National Future in the West
- 4. Antislavery Derailed
- 5. The Limits of Dred Scott’s Emancipation
- 6. Germans and the Power of Wartime Union
- 7. Building Union from Neutrality
- 8. Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Legacies
- 9. The Capital Failures of Reconstruction
- 10. Separating the City, County, and Nation
- Epilogue: The Forgotten Civil War
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Archival Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Great Heart of the Republic
St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
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$47.00 • £40.95 • €42.95
ISBN 9780674052888
Publication Date: 01/03/2011