Historians and the Civil War Era Historiography and the quest for

Causation Contending Civilizations. Fracture of the political system over slavery in the territories.
No contemporary consensus—how to link national policy with biographies of southern whites and blacks. Best single volume: Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988—which should tell you something!).

Rethinking American Emancipation

MASSOLIT - The American Civil War, 1861-65: Historiography and

Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War - AAIHS

Syllabus - Purdue University

Littlefield History of the Civil War Era - UNC Press

Reconstruction – HarperCollins

Nineteenth-Century Historiography - US History Scene

Chapter 6 Herodotus, Thucydides, and the 'Wheel of History

American History Books