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

by Current, Richard Nelson.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1987Edition: 1st ed.Description: 208 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0819551872 (alk. paper) :.Subject(s): 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
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.
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