Arguing with historians : essays on the historical and the unhistorical - Current, Richard Nelson (Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1987)
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.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 175-197.
Keywords: 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