TY - BOOK AU - Potter,David Morris TI - The South and the sectional conflict AV - F 214 .P6 PY - 1968/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - Southern States KW - History KW - United States KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Historiography N1 - Essays; Includes bibliographical references; The enigma of the South.--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 ER -