Passionate political disagreement is as old as the American Republic, and the antebellum era—the thirty years before the Civil War—was as rife with partisan

Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a ti

Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a tem

This book chronologically tells the birth, life and death of the Whigs, a major American political party that was the country's last and best hope to avert sece

Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.