The Confederacy

by Richard Nelson Current

A collection of articles written by leading historians, southern academics, and social thinkers offers a unique look at the strategies and aspirations of the Confederate States of America, whose secession sent the Nation into the Civil War.

Genres: American Civil War, History

782 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Called "the dean of Lincoln scholars", Richard Nelson Current earned a B.A. in 1934 from Oberlin College, and M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1935, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940. Among the institutions at which Current taught over the course of his career was Rutgers University, Hamilton College, Northern Michigan University, Lawrence University, Mills College, Salisbury State University, the University of Illinois, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good reference for the Confederate side of the Civil War. Limiting everything to a single volume of only 760 pages means it doesn't go into a lot of detail about any one subject; but it does cover many things that I haven't come across in other books and magazine articles, such as the James River Squadron and state governors in the C.S.A.