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Michael Perman

    Michael Perman is professor of history emeritus at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His scholarship is characterized by a profound insight into historical processes and a precise analytical style that brings complex events to readers in an understandable form. In his publications, he focuses on key historical moments and their impact on the present, always striving for a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the past.

    Major problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction : documents and essays
    • Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. This text, designed to be the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covers the span of the Civil War. The Third Edition, with new co-author Amy Taylor, includes a new chapter on Lincoln and Davis as military leaders, reorganized home front chapters, and many new documents and essays reflecting the latest scholarship.

      Major problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction : documents and essays1998
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