edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by David W. Blight ... [et al.]
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997, c1996
xvii, 253 p. ;
22 cm
"First published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1996"--T.p. verso
"Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253)
"And the war came"? Abraham Lincoln and the question of individual responsibility / Gabor S. Boritt -- "Little women" who helped make this great war / Glenna Matthews -- They knew what time it was : African-Americans / David W. Blight -- The crisis of American democracy : the political system and the coming of the Civil War / William E. Gienapp -- The divided south, democracy's limitations, and the causes of the peculiarly North American Civil War / William W. Freehling -- "Freedom and law must die ere they sever" : the North / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- Fort Sumter : at last the war / Charles Royster
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes