Current, Richard Nelson.
Arguing with historians : essays on the historical and the unhistorical / Richard Nelson Current. - 1st ed. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1987. - 208 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 175-197.
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.
0819551872 (alk. paper) : $19.95
87013682
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Historiography.
Sectionalism (United States)--Historiography.
United States--Historiography.
United States--History--Historiography.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Race relations--Historiography.
United States--Ethnic relations--Historiography.
E175 / .C87 1987
973.072 / CUR
Arguing with historians : essays on the historical and the unhistorical / Richard Nelson Current. - 1st ed. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1987. - 208 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 175-197.
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.
0819551872 (alk. paper) : $19.95
87013682
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Historiography.
Sectionalism (United States)--Historiography.
United States--Historiography.
United States--History--Historiography.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Race relations--Historiography.
United States--Ethnic relations--Historiography.
E175 / .C87 1987
973.072 / CUR