TY - BOOK AU - Keith,LeeAnna TI - When it was grand: the radical Republican history of the Civil War SN - 9780809080311 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Political parties KW - United States KW - Antislavery movements KW - Radicalism KW - African Americans KW - Politics and government KW - Civil rights KW - 1849-1877 KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Great Old Party -- Filibustering in Kansas -- The antislavery resistance -- Transcendental politics -- Free soil, free men, Fremont -- Dred Scott nullification -- John Brownism -- House divided -- Harper's Ferry -- Wide awake -- Military emancipation -- Wolf killers -- Arming African Americans -- Turning the Mississippi -- Revolution by confiscation -- Republican nation-building -- Never surrender the flag -- Wearing the brass letter -- Black Republicans -- Postscript: Age of transcendence N2 - "A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"-- ER -