His slave property into the common territories.' 'impair the constitutional right of any citizen of the United States to take Resolutions affirming that neither Congress nor a territorial legislature could Jefferson Davis presented the substance of southern demands to the Senate in Other lower-South Democratic organizations followed suit. Refused to adopt a platform pledging a federal slave code for the territories. its delegates to walk out of the national convention if the party I didn't take notes in the bookstore, but in You said at Politics & Prose as well as in Battle Cry that the Southern states seceded over slavery and itsĮxtension, not for states' rights. That way I don't have to remember those other It is my 'go to' book on theĪll my other general histories of the war next to it, under 'McPher,' Decades ago, I bought your one-volume history of the Civil War, BattleĬry of Freedom, in hardbound. To History News Network, HNN, where at least some of the historical profession I shall ask them here, in this letter sent to you and However, that I must ask you more than one question, not about your most recentīook, but about your middle-school textbook, TheĪmerican Journey. Going to be critical, even embarrassing, and it wasn't appropriate to embarrass Times, most recently two years ago, when we walked together from one part ofĪrlington Cemetery to another for the burial with military honors of two bodiesĮventually I abandoned the question line, however, because my question was Saw me in the audience and later in the question line. Politics & Prose, the independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Why doesn't James McPherson's textbook (left) say the same things about secession and Civil War that his famed history of the war does (right)? Maybe he never wrote it? Loewen is the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.

American journey early years online