The Collapse of The Confederacy

Download or read book The Collapse of The Confederacy written by Prof. Charles H. Wesley and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, in his ground-breaking The Collapse of the Confederacy, the African American historian Charles H. Wesley (1891-1987) took a bold step in rewriting the history of the Confederate South by asserting that the new nation failed because of underlying internal and social factors. Looking beyond military events to explain the Confederacy’s demise, Wesley challenged conventional interpretations and argued that, by 1865, the supposedly unified South had “lost its will to fight.” Though neglected today by scholars and students of the Civil War, Wesley ranked as one of the leading African American historians, educational administrators, and public speakers of the first half of the twentieth century.