This collection is arranged into 3 boxes:
Box 1: Research materials for book forward and chapters 1-6, 8-13, 1830s-2005.
Box 2: Research materials for book chapters 14-21, photos, playbill from mock trial, and book review, 1850s-2008.
Box 3: Books (also cataloged separately in online catalog):
American Anti-slavery Society. The Anti-slavery History of the John-Brown Year; Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-slavery Society. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. (E451 .A51 1969)
Coughlin, Thomas Lamar. Those Southern Lamars: The Stories of Five Illustrious Lamars. N.p.: Xlibris Corp., 2000. (CS71.L46 2000)
Crenshaw, Ollinger. The Slave States in the Presidential Election of 1860. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1969. (E440 .C88 1969)
Dow, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2002. (HT1322 .D6 2002)
Eaton, Clement. The Feedom-of-Thought Struggle in the Old South. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. (F209 .E15 1964)
Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (E446 .F45 2001)
Halstead, Murat. Three Against Lincoln: Murat Halstead Reports the Caucuses of 1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960. (E440 .H22)
Johnson, Michael P.Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. (F290 .J65)
Johnson, Vicki Vaughn. The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845-1871. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992. (HF3153 .J57 1992)
McCardell, John. The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860. New York: Norton, 1979. (F213 .M13 1979)
Milton, George Fort.The Eve of Conflict: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless War. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. (E415.9.D73 M5)
Rhett, Robert Barnwell. A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. (F273 .R48 2000)
Russel, Robert Royal. Economic Aspects of Southern Sectionalism, 1840-1861. New York: Russell & Russell, 1960. (HC107.A13 R8 1960)
Sinha, Manisha. The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. (F273 .S64 2000)
Stampp, Kenneth M., ed. The Causes of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. (E458 .C33 1991)
Wender, Herbert. Southern Commercial Conventions, 1837-1859. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. (H31 .J6 ser. 48, no. 4)
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. (F209 .W9 1982)