Politics

Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. 1992.
Davis, Burke. Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson. 1977.
Davis, David B. The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style. 1970.
Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour. 1991.
Ellis, Richard B. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States’ Rights, & the Nullification Crisis. 1987.
Freehling, William. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. 1990.
Meyers, Marvin. The Jacksonian Persuasion. 1960, 1968.
Niven, John. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of America Politics. 1983.
Pessen, Edward. Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics. 1969, 1978.
Peterson, Merrill D. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay and Calhoun. 1987.
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. 1976
Remini, Robert. Andrew Jackson (3 volumes). 1977.
Remini, Robert. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. 1991.
Rozwenc, Edwin C. The Compromise of 1850. 1957.
Sewell, Richard. Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States. 1837-1860. 1976.
Stampp, Kenneth. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink. 1990.
Trefousse, Hans. The Radical Republicans. 1968.
Van Deusen, Glyndon G. The Jacksonian Era: 1828-1848. 1959.
Wiebe, Robert. The Opening of American Society. 1984.
Wood, Gordon S. Radicalism of the American Revolution. 1991.