Sources referenced
Publications by Aaron Astor
Aaron Astor, Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-1872 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012). Released in paperback, February 2017.
——, The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau (Charleston: The History Press, 2015).
Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, editors, Slavery: Interpreting American History (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021).
Other sources mentioned during episode
Washington’s Farewell Address
George Washington, “Farewell Address, 19 September 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0440-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 703–722.]
Washington writes in this speech:
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with20 perfect good faith. Here let us stop.”
Other sources mentioned in the interview
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1966).
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, revised edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).