Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States.

Award—winning historians such as Steven Hahn, Martha Sandweiss, William Deverell, Virginia Scharff, and Stephen Kantrowitz offer original essays on lives, choices, and legacies in the American West, discussing the consequences for American Indian nations, the link between Reconstruction and suffrage movements, and cross—border interactions with Canada and M...