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I prefer ours. Serious scholarship: A Patriot's HIstory of the United States.

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Actually if read carefully the better and more comprehensive mainstream (liberal) US history treatments such as S. E. Morrison et. al, "Growth of the American Republic reveal much of the same information. The primary motivation of the Republicans and pro-war Democrats was maintenance of the Union not abolition, secession probably existed as a theoretical right, the union was originally a union of largely sovereign states which voluntarily turned over certain powers to the national government voluntarily and these powers theoretically could be reclaimed by the states. Eve the sorry performance of the New Deal was spelled out in the Morrison text. It is just stated in several places with no interpretative information and the reader is left to connect the dots himself. Admittedly something most college undergrads won't have time or inclination for.

The point I am making is that many of these supposedly taboo topics could be raised and discussed in relative amity at the college level thirty years ago. The profs were overwhelmingly pro-dem but I can't say I encountered much PC in US history. Courses on the USSR and China were another matter.