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Introduction To Ethnic Voters And The Election Of Lincoln, Frederick C. Luebke
Introduction To Ethnic Voters And The Election Of Lincoln, Frederick C. Luebke
Department of History: Faculty Publications
A twofold purpose informs this anthology of essays on ethnic voters in the presidential election of 1860. First, it gathers together a great quantity of factual information about immigrants and politics on the eve of the Civil War. Naturally, the Germans receive the greatest amount of attention. Not only did they rival the Irish in numbers in 1860. but they were also the most diverse ethnic group in America. The essays of this volume also offer much data about politicians and their perceptions of the democratic process, about political parties and the social bases of their support, and about political …