An Article by William H. Freehling in Today's NY Times
Historian William H. Freehling is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. His focus is on the events whose unfolding led the Southern states to decide the secession from the Union and to face the Civil War. Among his books, The Road to Disunion (Oxford University Press, vol I 1991 and vol II 2007), Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860 (Oxford University Press, 1992), Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 (Oxford University Press, 1992), The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1994).
I found in today's NY Times a column in which Prof. Freehling discusses the way the events took place in Virginia. The name of George Wythe Randolph is mentioned: he was the grandson of President Jefferson, and a convinced secessionist, a Secretary of War of the Confederacy. It is an example of how dramatic was the split of the American society in the times of the Civil War
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(A Life in Books)
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