[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 14 (reply 15).

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

[Tax-chick]

This all reminds me of the Federal period, about which I have recently been reading. All sorts of local and regional disasters were stewing, most famously Aaron Burr’s ersatz war with Spain, and local, state, and federal authorities were left constantly in a tizzy.