Nathan Kalmoe (he/him): Pre-war conflict over slavery & partisan elections in Grimsted's American Mobbing. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Here are a few books to help understand what subversion from *within* the loyal states looked like during the US Civil War. On insurrection plots by Northern Dems: Weber's Copperheads. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A 🧵 on political strategy at a time of max threat to democracy (such as it is/was): In 1860, Lincoln was elected on a Republican platform that pledged to prevent the expansion of Black enslavement into western territories, but claimed impotence in assailing slavery where it already existed. 1/

Neely's Union Divided, which shares the same cover image with my book. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Union Divided — Harvard University Presswww.hup.harvard.edu In 1863, Union soldiers from Illinois threatened to march from the battlefield to their state capital. Springfield had not been seized by the Rebels--but the state government was in danger of being ca...

Pre-war conflict over slavery & partisan elections in Grimsted's American Mobbing. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My book on partisanship & violence in the North during the American Civil War. www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

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