Kenneth Stampp (Books)

Kenneth Stampp Books

Kenneth Stampp was a celebrated historian focusing on slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction. His scholarship delved deeply into pivotal periods of American history. Stampp analyzed these eras, emphasizing their complex social and political ramifications. His writing offers incisive insights into the shaping of the United States.

The Causes of the Civil War

256 pages
9 hours of reading

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From Simon & Schuster, The Cause of the Civil War is historian Kenneth Stampp's exploration of America's great civil conflict.Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources--from Jefferson Davis to Frederick Douglass--and interpretive essays by today's most influential historians, this collection of essays gives a vivid sense of the political, economic, and cultural currents that swept the nation to war.