Arguing with historians
Subtitle: essays on the historical and the unhistorical
By: Richard Nelson Current.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: 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
Notes: Bibliography: p. 175-197.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: An imaginary Declaration of Independence, 1775-1975; title: Who started the war, Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?; title: The myth of the jealous son; title: Lincoln biographies; title: President Grant and the continuing Civil War; title: Love, hate, and Thaddeus Stevens; title: Reconstruction in Mississippi; title: Carpetbaggers reconsidered; title: Neo-Calhounism and minority rights; title: Fiction as history; title: The "new ethnicity" and American history.