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Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History
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Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. By David Goldfield. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 354. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2758-2.)
The place of the Civil War in American history was summed up, and to an extent defined, by Robert Penn Warren in his centennial survey of that conflict. It was, he wrote, "history lived in the national imagination," but there was a distinctly sectional division within that imagination. The war, as Warren memorably put it, gave the North the "Treasury of Virtue," the South the "Great Alibi." "By the Great ...
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