Lincoln's critics
Subtitle: the Copperheads of the North
By: by Frank L. Klement ; edited and introduced by Steven K. Rogstad.
Contributors: Rogstad, Steven K.
Publisher: White Mane Pub. Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Shippensburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion.; Copperhead movement.; Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Northwest, Old -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Protest movements.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Protest movements.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
Description: Professor Frank Klement's writings forever changed how all students of the Civil War view President Abraham Lincoln's Northern critics based in the Democratic Party. Lincoln's Critics combines in one volume both Klement's final insights in his most recent articles, and the best of his earlier writings on this subject so important for understanding the American political process at its most stressed time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251 ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part One: A Case for Lincoln's Critics; title: I Copperheads in the Upper Midwest during the Civil War:; title: Traitors, Politicians, or Dissenters?3; title: II President Lincoln, the Civil War, and the Bill of Rights24; title: Part Two: Background of Dissent; title: III Economic Aspects of Middle Western Copperheadism43; title: IV Middle Western Copperheadism and the; title: Genesis of the Granger Movement53; title: V Controversy Regarding the Copperheads; title: Section One: "The Concept of Agrarian Radicalism"; title: by Ronald P. Formisano and William G. Shade64; title: Section Two: "Copperheadism, Grangerism, and; title: Conflicting Contentions: A Rebuttal" by Frank L. Klement 82; title: Part Three: Democrats as Copperheads and Critics; title: VI Catholics as Copperheads during the Civil War93; title: VII Midwestern Opposition to President Lincoln's; title: Em ancipation Policy109; title: VIII Ohio Politics in 1863118; title: IX "Brick" Pomeroy: Copperhead and Curmudgeon135; title: Part Four: Rewriting Copperhead History; title: X Civil War Politics, Nationalism, and Postwar Myths149; title: XI Nationalism and the Writing of Civil War History:; title: An Essay in Historiography164; title: XII In Retrospect and More175; title: Notes184; title: Frank L. Klement Bibliography239; title: Index . 252.