“The Civil War is the first war where the losers and their descendants wrote most of the history. “
Don’t despair. The Era of the South Haters is in full bloom right now. Enjoy.
We don’t hate the south, rather we love the truth.
That clearly isn't true.
Much of the new history being written on the Civil War over the past two decades has been written by sympathetic Southerners or non-ideological Southerners and Northerners.
I would point to Gordon C. Rhea's ongoing project on Grant's Overland Campaign, and Peter Cozzens excellent multi-volume series on the war in the West on the Southern side.
Stephen Sears' (Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Peninsula) and Noah Trudeau's (Gettysburg, Sherman's March, Petersburg) works on the Northern side, while they do not buy into the unsustainable Lost Cause myth any more than Rhea or Cozzens do, present a hard-headed picture of the Union's achievements - not a fawning portrait.
I am not aware of any best-selling writer or prominent military historian specializing in the Civil War who takes an aggressive, partisan, one-sided view of the conflict.
I would also point out that the best-selling social historian on the antebellum South, the late Eugene Genovese, was also extremely evenhanded in his treatment of the subject and exploded a number of ideological myths about the South in his work.