Prologue, Slavery, Sovereignty, and American Constitutionalism
Slavery, the South, and the North
Politics and the Proslavery Constitutional Order, 1846-1857
The Path to Secession and the Outbreak of War, 1858-1861
The Battle Joined, 1861-1862
The War Transformed, 1863-1864
Politics and Constitutionalism in the Wartime Union, 1861-1864
Politics and Constitutionalism in the Wartime Confederacy, 1861-1864
Soldiers, Civilians, and Revolutionary Constitutionalism
The End and the Beginning, 1865-1866
Politics and the Reconstructed Constitutional Order, 1867-1876
Freedom, the South, and the North
Liberty, Union, and American Constitutionalism.