The Causes of the Civil War: Revised Edition

From Simon & Schuster, The Cause of the Civil War is historian Kenneth Stampp’s exploration of America’s great civil conflict.

Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources–from Jefferson Davis to Frederick Douglass–and interpretive essays by today’s most influential historians, this collection of essays gives a vivid sense of the political, economic, and cultural currents that swept the nation to war.