Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future by Jason Phillips

Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

Jason Phillips

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People foreca...

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