On understanding the South.
The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa.
The literature on the background of the Civil War.
The Lincoln theme and American national historiography.
Depletion and renewal in Southern history.
John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes.
Horace Greeley and peaceable secession.
Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.
Jefferson Davis and the political factors in Confederate defeat.
The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.
