The Dominoes of Disunion
December 30, 1860 to January 5, 1861
From the editor: The dominoes of disunion fall swiftly and surely after Abraham Lincoln’s electoral victory in November 1860. It takes the firebrands in South Carolina little more than a month to pass a state law calling for a secession convention and by t…
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