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American Civil Wars

A Continental History, 1850-1873

Alan Taylor

2024

W. W. Norton & Co.

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Book Review

Our Civil War Was Bigger Than You Think

Alan Taylor’s case for thinking of it as a continental conflict.

by Casey Michel via The Bulwark on June 21, 2024
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Book Excerpt

On the Road to Ruin with Their Characteristic Speed

Waiting for the start of the American Civil War in Canada and the Caribbean.

by Alan Taylor via HNN on May 28, 2024
Book Excerpt

A More Imperfect Union: How Differing National Visions Divided the North and the South

On the fragile facade of republicanism in 19th century America.

by Alan Taylor via Literary Hub on May 21, 2024

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Abraham Lincoln

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 21, 2025

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