South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

Bibliography

Articles

• Emerson, W. Eric. “Guest Editor's Introduction to a Special Issue: Why They Seceded: Understanding the Civil War in South Carolina after 150 Years.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 112, nos. 3/4 (July-October 2011): 122–125.

Books

• Catton, Bruce.  The Coming Fury. Vol. 1. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
• Farber, Daniel. Lincoln's Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Hyman, Harold M., and William M. Wiecek. Equal Justice under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835–1875. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
• Lesser, Charles H. Relic of the Lost Cause: The Story of South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession, 2nd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
• McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 1982.
• McDonnell, Lawrence. Performing Disunion: The Coming of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• Potter, David M.  The Impending Crisis,  1848–1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
• Stampp, Kenneth M. The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Starobin, Paul. Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War. New York: PublicAffairs, 2017.