The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War

A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era

by J. Matthew Gallman

Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War―and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture―confounded the Democrats’ self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the central issue of slavery.A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era

Genres: Civil War

599 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 26, 2021

About the author

J. Matthew Gallman, also known as Matt Gallman, is an American educator and author of books about nineteenth-century history, particularly relating to the American Civil War.