Last night I came upon the blog of Kevin M. Levin. How? I was doing some research on the English Civil War, typing specifically "cavaliers Stuarts" into the search engine. Instead, I first found this account of JEB Stuart's death. Then there was this post on Levin's blog, a review of a Christian devotional book using Stuart as a model for Christians to emulate. Levin apparently thinks that the war was fought primarily over slavery, the dominant view that most Americans adhere to today, one would think. Certainly this is the one that is inculcated in the public school system.
Dr. Clyde Wilson has written against this view. But what history books, acceptable to contemporary academia, present a more complicated account of the causes of secession, and would be worth reading? Would it be too much to ask from contemporary academia, to accept such an argument as being valid?
Dr. Wilson reviews The Myth of the Lost Cost and Civil War History. His book recommendations: The South and Southern History
What would the difference be between Southern mythology and authentic writing of history, content-wise, according to Dr. Wilson?
Jefferson Davis's The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Another book for me to read...
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