The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War on the Middle Border and the Making of American Regionalism by Christopher Phillips

The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War on the Middle Border and the Making of American Regionalism

Christopher Phillips

496 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However,...

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