Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Political Organizer: Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Campaign / Michael S. Green Green, Michael S. 7 -- 2 The 1860 Southern Sojourns of Stephen A. Douglas and the Irrepressible Separation / James L. Huston Huston, James L. 29 -- 3 A Forlorn Hope: Interpreting the Breckinridge Campaign as a Matter of Honor / A. James Fuller Fuller, A. James 69 -- 4 Last True Whig: John Bell and the Politics of Compromise in 1860 / A. James Fuller Fuller, A. James 103 -- 5 Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionist Response to the Election of 1860 / John R. McKivigan McKivigan, John R. 141 -- 6 Saving the Republic: Turnout, Ideology, and Republicanism in the Election of 1860 / Thomas E. Rodgers Rodgers, Thomas E. 165 -- 7 Election of i860 and Political Realignment Theory: Indiana as a Case Study / A. James Fuller Fuller, A. James 193 -- 8 View from Abroad: Europeans Look at the Election of 1860 / Lawrence Sondhaus Sondhaus, Lawrence 225 -- 9 "An Inscrutable Election?": The Historiography of the Election of 1860 / Douglas G. Gardner Gardner, Douglas G. 245.