Arguing with historians : essays on the historical and the unhistorical /

Arguing with historians : essays on the historical and the unhistorical /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Current, Richard Nelson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Historiography.
Sectionalism (United States) > Historiography.
United States > Historiography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography.
United States > Race relations > Historiography.
United States > Ethnic relations > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • An imaginary Declaration of Independence, 1775-1975
  • Who started the war, Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?
  • The myth of the jealous son
  • Lincoln biographies
  • President Grant and the continuing Civil War
  • Love, hate, and Thaddeus Stevens
  • Reconstruction in Mississippi
  • Carpetbaggers reconsidered
  • Neo-Calhounism and minority rights
  • Fiction as history
  • The "new ethnicity" and American history.