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The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States

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By David Treuer, Shawn Gude, Sarah Perry
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Connor Williams. St. Martin’s, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-39736-2 The Civil War was brought about by an extremely small, wealthy group of “proactive, pro-slavery fanatics,” according to this exceptional study from historian Williams (A Promise Delivered). Surveying reasons commonly given for Southern secession, Williams rebuts each that portrays the desire to secede and to preserve slavery as widespread in the South.
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

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By David Treuer, Shawn Gude, Sarah Perry
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Nathaniel Philbrick. Viking, $38 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-56223-8 This sweeping study from historian Philbrick (Travels with George) details how the California Gold Rush gave birth to modern America. Only nine days after gold was struck on January 24, 1848, the U.S. signed the treaty in which Mexico ceded California.
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The Savage Mind: An American Legacy

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By David Treuer
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. Oct. 2026. 272p. ISBN 9780316599436. $30. HISTORY COPY ISBN Treuer’s (English, Univ. of Southern California; The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee) latest, framed as a set of epistolary essays to his children, weaves together memoir, Indigenous identity, and U.S. political and social history.
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