The South and the sectional conflict /

The South and the sectional conflict /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Potter, David Morris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
Subjects:
Southern States > History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • The 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 history
  • 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 political factors in Confederate defeat
  • The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.