Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

“As he points out, after the war a battle over the memory of the war began. The South portrayed its efforts as militarily astute and admirable. The notion that slavery was a cause of the war disappears from Southern writing. Slave plantations are portrayed as honorable and idyllic, without any hint of the horrors of slavery.” Read more...

The Best Books on the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust,