In the 1850s, the political party system of the United States was disrupted, and a new Republican Party was born in opposition to the Slave Power. But what existed just before that. What is a Whig, anyway? And why did they suddenly collapse?
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Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35100.Battle_Cry_of_Freedom
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men by Eric Foner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132914.Free_Soil_Free_Labor_Free_Men
The Strange Stillbirth of the Whig Party by Lynn L. Marshall: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1859236?read-now=1&seq=1
Who Were the Southern Whigs? by Charles Grier Sellers, Jr.: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1843625?seq=1
Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig by Daniel Walker Howe: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0016.105/--why-abraham-lincoln-was-a-whig?rgn=main;view=fulltext
