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The Worst Passions of Human Nature
The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, …
Lincoln's Dilemma
The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. …
Worst Passions of Human Nature
The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, …
What Shall We Do with the Negro
Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the ""New York Times"" in 1862, 'What shall we do with the …
South for New Southerners
The South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States. And for people from other countries, Southern customs and lifestyle can be even …
Major Problems in the History of the American South
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important …
North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Although North Carolina was a "e;home front"e; state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and …
The Civil War Political Tradition
Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter’s 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise …
Uncommonly Savage
';Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject …
The Confederacy
A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort. Paul Escott's The …
Confederacy
A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.Paul Escott's The …
Military Necessity
Never before or since in American history have the needs and influence of the military weighed so heavily on society. Escott analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy …