Examines the sectional rivalries that surfaced in the early 19th century and intensified in the decades leading up to the war.
Highlights the causes of the Civil War, including economic issues, land in the West, and slavery, and discusses key figures.
Gathers original sources, including newspaper editorials, speeches, and documents, and shares comments by historians on the period
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In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other ...
Discusses the events leading up to the American Civil War, particularly the strongly held beliefs about the institution of slavery.
While South Carolina's preemptive strike on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's subsequent call to arms started the Civil War, South Carolina's secession and Lincoln's military actions were simply the last in a chain of events stretching as far back ...
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This book examines the series of compromises aimed at diffusing sectional conflict during the first half of the nineteenth century, the development of political strategies, the outbreak of armed hostilities, and the eventual secession of ...
Demon of the Lost Cause reveals the machinations behind the Sherman myth and the reasons behind the acceptance of such myths, no matter who invented them.
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