1848: Southern Politics at the Crossroads

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsNorman A. GraebnerThe author, a member of Epsilon chapter, is Professor of History and Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Illinois; he is also a member of the Editorial Board of The HISTORIAN. He was granted his Ph.D. by the University of Chicago. His writings include Empire on the Pacific (1955), The New Isolationism (1956), and Cold War Diplomacy (1962). He is the editor of The Enduring Lincoln (1959), An Uncertain Tradition: American Secretaries of State in the Twentieth Century (1961), and Politics and the Crisis of 1960 (1961). This article, in different form, was read at the Phi Alpha Theta dinner at the Southern Historical Association meeting at Chattanooga on November 10, 1961.