UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO anyone who spoke of secession as a legal right could expect to be scoffed at as the advocate of a permanently outmoded idea. In recent dec

Is secession legal under the United States Constitution? "One Nation, Indivisible?" takes a fresh look at this old question by evaluating the key arguments of s

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

This book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession's constitutionality was debated.

Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union.