Kansas-Nebraska Act

Bibliography

Articles

• Russel, Robert R. “The Issues in the Congressional Struggle over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854.” Journal of Southern History 29, no. 2 (May 1963): 187–210.

Books

• Basler, Roy Prentice, ed. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 4 vols. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955.
• Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. Reprint edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Part, 1852–1856. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
• Johannsen, Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
• Levine, Bruce. Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War. Revised edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
• Malavasic, Elizabeth. The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
• Potter, David Morris. The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
• Sewell, Richard H. A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848–1861. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
• Sutton, Robert K. Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017.
• Wunder, John R., and Joann M. Ross, eds. The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Websites

• “Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854).” National Archives “Our Documents” website. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=28/.
• Monroe, R. D. “The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1854–1856.” Lincoln/Net website. https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/lincoln/republican.