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Fighting With the Past

How Seventeenth-Century English History Shaped the American Civil War
  • Aaron Sheehan-Dean
2025
The University of North Carolina Press

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How Seventeenth-Century English History Shaped the American Civil War

Americans used history to shape how Northerners and Southerners debated abolition, often weaponizing the past instead of learning from it.
by Christopher B. Bean via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on April 5, 2026
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