What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History

This title provides a selection of essays from one of today's foremost Southern historians exploring the past of the American South.

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The past of the American South, with its peculiarities of tragic proportions-a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at the Union, poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development-is fertile ground for great works of history. Here in wide-ranging essays, today's foremost Southern historian turns over the rich soil of life in the South.