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David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 – February 18, 1971) was an American historian specializing in the study of the coming of the American Civil War, especially the political factors. His best known book is The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 , which was completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and published posthumously in 1976.
The author explained five "potential scenarios" of how the civil war might happen in the US: "a violent confrontation between the federal government and a posse of far-right militias, the assassination of a Democratic president, the destruction of New York City in a super hurricane, the detonation of a dirty bomb in Washington DC, and the ...
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War is a 1962 book of historical and literary criticism written by Edmund Wilson.It consists of 16 chapters about the works and lives of almost 30 writers, including Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Chopin, John William De Forest (who, as American historian Henry Steele Commager put it, [1 ...
Edward Alfred Pollard (February 27, 1832 – December 17, 1872) was an American author, journalist, and Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War who wrote several books on the causes and events of the war, notably The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (1866) and The Lost Cause Regained (1868), [1] wherein Pollard originated the long-standing pseudo ...
A college professor and his students counted words in secession documents to determine what really caused the Civil War.
The book notes that our religious leaders also fell short, telling the populace on both sides during the Civil War that God was on their side, but as the author quotes Lincoln as observing, one ...
The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Freeman, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Fairleigh–Dickinson University Press, 1995. Harwell, Richard. The Confederate Hundred: A Bibliographic Selection of Confederate ...
Why the South Lost the Civil War is a 1986 non-fiction book by Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William L. Still, published by the University of Georgia Press . It described what the authors say are the reasons why the Confederate States of America collapsed during the American Civil War .