The South and the sectional conflict [electronic resource] /
D avid M. Potter.
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
- xi, 321 p. ; 23 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Essays.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
enigma of the South -- On understanding the South -- The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa -- The literature on the background of the Civil War -- The Lincoln theme and American national historiography -- Depletion and renewal in Southern histor y -- John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes -- Horace Greeley and peaceable secession -- Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession -- Jefferson Davis and the p olitical factors in Confederate defeat -- The Civil War in the histo ry of the modern world; a comparative view. The
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Southern States-- History. United States-- History-- Historiography.-- Civil War, 1861-1865