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William C. Davis, "one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom) , offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any other. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of... read more

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A WAG MIGHT ARGUE that the origins of the Confederacy dated to the philosophy of Aristotle, who proposed that differences arising from race and regional origin and birth created natural distinctions between peoples and their inherent abilities.
 

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