I see what you're driving at, but I really do think that the issue of slavery was the primary cause. Without slavery to get the poor whites involved...
Andrew did not mean that disunion was a good thing, but rather that some individuals in South Carolina were going to use any excuse they could find...
Learn the past so you can figure out if you are repeating it. I didn't miss your point at all. The people of the past told us what the Civil War was...
I was not aware that slavery kept cropping up as a problem since it was made illegal by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. Since slavery is...
Now working on Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. I also have John Adams by David McCullough in process.
The AOC failed because it did not provide for a strong enough central government. The Founders then created the Constitution which did provide for a...
Working Sam Wineburg's Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Interesting book so far.
Just finished Freedom From Fear by Donald Kennedy. I liked the exploration he made into the New Deal and Roosevelt's lack of a real plan. The WWII...
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. I'm using the PBS series developed from it in my geography course. The concepts in the book generated a lot...
I'm currently working on rereading Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. I'm tying that into the geography class I...
Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic.
I am reading Pauline Maier's From Resistance to Revolution. I've read both Ferling books you mentioned as well in addition to quite a few others. I...
The Beardian economic interpretation played a very minor role in the cause of the Civil War. The main cause was over the expansion of slavery into...
People like Irving use some facts to give their crackpot theories some credible standing. They like to use those facts as sort of a bait to get...
I would say ALL respected historians agree that the Holocaust took place. As a matter of fact, I would ignore any historian who claimed it did not....
You have to be careful with what is passed as "factual" information. Sometimes the "facts" are out of context which is probably the number one method...
Let's face it. The guy is another conspiracy whackjob. Don't bother to waste your time with folks like him. You can't reason with them because they...
The men who served in the Continental Congress differed on this issue just like they did on almost all issues. Generally, the conservative factions...
No, I really don't care about your existence that much. I try to teach those capable of learning which you are not. You don't make much sense whining...
That's really funny considering most of us academics are seen as dissenters by conservatives. You know the best way to shut down people like you...
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