Introduction : the three sides of the American Civil War -- The destruction of the past -- Thomas Hart Benton's failed compromise -- Building the national future in the West -- Antislavery derailed -- The limits of Dred Scott's emancipation -- Germans and the power of wartime union -- Building union from neutrality -- Abraham Lincoln's lost legacies -- The capital failures of Reconstruction -- Separating the city, county, and nation -- Epilogue : the forgotten Civil War.
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