"The Alabama Democratic convention [instructed] its delegates to walk out of the national convention if the party refu…"

"What were these rights and liberties for which Confederates contended? The right to own slaves; the liberty to take t…"

"To a good many southerners the events of 1861–1865 have been known as 'The War of Northern Aggression'. Never mind th…"

"Slavery was at the root of what the Civil War was all about. If there had been no slavery, there would have been no w…"

"Powerful racial prejudices? That was not true of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, or Norwood P. Hallowell, or George T. Ga…"

"There are all kinds of myths that a people has about itself, some positive, some negative, some healthy and some not …"

"What has changed is that I've gained a lot more sympathy for Lincoln. At the time I was doing my dissertation I tende…"

"The great crisis facing the country was the rebellion and anybody in the North who wanted to preserve the Union now f…"

"General Sherman, who had lived in the South, liked Southerners and did not at all sympathize with Northern racial vie…"

"In this study the term "abolitionist" will be applied to those Americans who before the Civil War had agitated for im…"