Arguing with Historians : Essays on the Historical and the Unhistorical
Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Item #16802
ISBN: 0819551872
Light wear; Dust Jacket spine sun, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Essays on Civil War-era issues of nationalism and sectionalism challenging intepretations of American history. Contents: Introduction; An imaginary Declaration of Independence, 1775-1975; Who started the war, Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?; The myth of the jealous son; Lincoln biographies: Old and New Myths; 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: Vidal, Haley, Styron; The "new ethnicity" and American history; Notes; Index. ; 224 pages.
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