南北戦争の原因
Huston, James L. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. (2003)
Luraghi, Raimondo, "The Civil War and the Modernization of American Society: Social Structure and Industrial Revolution in the Old South Before and During the War," Civil War History XVIII (Sept. 1972). in JSTOR
McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: the Civil War and Reconstruction. (1982), uses modernization interpretation.
Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. (1966). modernization interpretation
Thornton, Mark; Ekelund, Robert B. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. (2004), stresses fear of future protective tariffs
Crofts Daniel. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989)
Current, Richard. Lincoln and the First Shot (1963)
Nevins, Allan, author of most detailed history
Ordeal of the Union 2 vols. (1947) covers 1850-57.
The Emergence of Lincoln, 2 vols. (1950) covers 1857-61; does not take strong position on causation
Olsen, Christopher J. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860" (2000), cultural interpretation
Potter, David The Impending Crisis 1848-1861. (1976), Pulitzer Prize-winning history emphasizing rise of Southern nationalism
Potter, David M. Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1942).
Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds. Religion and the American Civil War (1998), essays
Ashworth, John
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. (1995)
"Free labor, wage labor, and the slave power: republicanism and the Republican party in the 1850s," in Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (eds), The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880, pp. 128–46. (1996)
Donald, David et al. The Civil War and Reconstruction (latest edition 2001); 700-page survey
Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2003), 400-page survey
Foner, Eric
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: the Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. (1970, 1995) stress on ideology
Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press. (1981)
Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 1991., emphasis on slavery
Gienapp William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987)
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (1988)], major overview, neoabolitionist emphasis on slavery
Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997)
Ralph E. Morrow. "The Proslavery Argument Revisited," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Jun., 1961), pp. 79–94.
Rhodes, James Ford History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume: 1. (1920), highly detailed narrative 1850-56. vol 2 1856-60; empasis on slavery
アーサー・シュレジンジャー "The Causes of the Civil War" (1949) reprinted in his The Politics of Hope (1963); reintroduced new emphasis on slavery
Stampp, Kenneth M. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (1990)
Stampp, Kenneth M. And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 (1950).