Table of Contents
- Frontmatter (page N/A)
- Abbreviations Usedin the Footnotes (page viii)
- Introduction (page ix)
- 1 Immigration, Nativism, and Party Crisis (page 3)
- 2 The Rise of the Know Nothings (page 20)
- 3 The Know Nothings Enter Politics, 52 (page 52)
- 4 The Know Nothings and the Collapse of the Second Party System (page 75)
- 5 "Americans Must rule America": The Ideology of the Know Nothing Party (page 103)
- 6 The Know Nothings in Office (page 127)
- 7 "Our Order Must Be Nationalized": Slavery Divides the Know Nothing Party (page 162)
- 8 "Slavery Is at the Bottom of all Our Troubles": The Decline of the Know Nothing Party (page 194)
- 9 The Know Nothings and Republican Ascendancy, 1857-1860 (page 220)
- 10 The Know Nothings and Republican Ascendancy, 1857-1860 (page 246)
- Appendix (page 279)
- Bibliography (page 287)
- Index (page 311)