Fighting with the Past Fiona Walton Amanda Morris is a Lecturer

Amanda Morris is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Essex and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University

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Fighting with the Past Fiona Walton Amanda Morris is a LecturerCivil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of the 1600s. Northerners and Southerners alike drew from histories of the English past to make sense of their own conflict, interpreting the events of the