Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER ONE. The Ideology of the Republican Party 8
6. CHAPTER TWO. Making and Mobilizing the Republican Party, 1854–1860 29
7. CHAPTER THREE. War Is the Health of the Party: Republicans in the American Civil War 60
8. The Genesis and Growth of the Republican Party: A Brief History 81
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Politics Purified: Religion and the Growth of Antislavery Idealism in Republican Ideology During the Civil War 103
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Defining Postwar Republicanism: Congressional Republicans and the Boundaries of Citizenship 128
11. Afterword 167
12. Notes 171
13. Select Bibliography 187
14. Contributors 193
15. Index 195