A dangerous stir fear, paranoia, and the making of Reconstruction /
Summers, Mark W. 1951-
A dangerous stir fear, paranoia, and the making of Reconstruction / Mark Wahlgren Summers. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (329 pages) illustrations. - Civil War America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: empire day? -- Paranoid politics, 1789-1861 -- Copperheads and consolidationists, 1861-1865 -- Black scare: the South after slavery -- Have we a constitution? -- Do they want still more blood? Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction -- Horrors on horrors accumulate: July 1866 -- Do you want Andrew Johnson for president or king? -- A dangerous stir in Maryland -- Impeachment fevers, 1867 -- If you don't kill the beast: impeachment at last -- Let us have peace -- The wolf who cried wolf -- Coda: the dog that barked too much at night.
9781469610405
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Psychological aspects.
Fear--History--United States--19th century.
Anxiety--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
E668 / .D364 2009
A dangerous stir fear, paranoia, and the making of Reconstruction / Mark Wahlgren Summers. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (329 pages) illustrations. - Civil War America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: empire day? -- Paranoid politics, 1789-1861 -- Copperheads and consolidationists, 1861-1865 -- Black scare: the South after slavery -- Have we a constitution? -- Do they want still more blood? Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction -- Horrors on horrors accumulate: July 1866 -- Do you want Andrew Johnson for president or king? -- A dangerous stir in Maryland -- Impeachment fevers, 1867 -- If you don't kill the beast: impeachment at last -- Let us have peace -- The wolf who cried wolf -- Coda: the dog that barked too much at night.
9781469610405
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Psychological aspects.
Fear--History--United States--19th century.
Anxiety--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
E668 / .D364 2009