In the Cause of Liberty
Cooper, William J / McCardell, John M This remarkable collection of essays by ten preeminent scholars of nineteenth-century America addresses the epochal impact of the Civil War in two ways: by examining the conflict in terms of three Americasantebellum, wartime, and post-bellum, and by commenting upon the critical role that white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South played during this transformative era. Through these differing and sometime...