Understanding the War Between the States

De: Mr. Howard Ray White, Clyde Wilson

Narrado por: Bill Izard

Understanding the War Between the States is a supplemental history by 16 writers that enables a more complete and truthful study of American history. Consisting of 40 concise chapters, beginning with the Colonial era of North America, moving to the Revolution and the establishment of the US, it proceeds into westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean. But at that point in American history, the Northern cultures and Southern cultures clash in a horrific political sectional contest over how powerful the country's federal government should be.

The consequence is political sectionalism in the Northern states, giving rise to the Republican Party and the election of Abraham Lincoln and Republican governors throughout the Northern states. Secession of seven Southern states takes place, and President Lincoln contrives a pretext for launching a war of subjugation and conquest against the non-Republican Southern States.

After four years of horrific war, even "total war", the Federals prevail. A process of political reconstruction ensues, a process for the federal government to become all-powerful is launched, and the limited government promised by the American Revolution is lost to memory. State rights declines into a faint memory of days long ago, everywhere, North, South, and West.

Our society has produced the most concise, complete, and easily understandable history that has ever been created for the purpose of imparting a truthful understanding of the war between the states.

©2015 Society of Independent Southern Historians (P)2018 Shotwell Publishing LLC

Wonderful starting point for understanding.

Wonderful starting point for understanding the invasion. Many reference points for further reading were given.

Loved it!

Very informative, honest, and revealing. Every essay is full of well documented and researched material, and keeps getting better and better. A perfect background listen while at work, home, or tinkering in the garage.

Must Read!

This should be required reading for every student! I found this book fascinating. The logic used by the authors is spot on and presented in a way you will never hear in the mainstream media. I highly recommend this book!

The truth about the Civil War and Southern History

I have read few books that tell the truth about the differences between the North and the South as well as this. I have learned so much. How I wish every American would read or listen to this great work which many historians/authors contributed to~a great study in truth.

Accurate

No one ever asks why did the North go to war and it certainly was not slavery. Lincoln went to war to save the tariff money. Ports from Maryland to Texas would have been a loss for the old Whigs whose politics were like the old woman’s dance. New Orleans would have replaced New York as the dominant port. Lincoln needed the protection tariffs for him and his cronies. He, Grant and Sherman murdered a million to force people not to be self governed but to be ruled. If you do not believe how important a source to rule and plunder from is to tyrants, just look at Today. No one reigns in the tyrants in DC and now we have foreign tyrants in bed with them. Thank Lincoln for centralizing everything. Dual sovereignty and the right of self govern were lost. All tyrants wage war over money and paint it differently. Weapons of mass destruction said Bush! The glorious Union said Lincoln and after a million men, women and children, black and white, he changes the narrative to Slavery. He did not believe in seceding but he convinced Virginians to secede and thus West Virginia; all because he needed two more votes in Senate to have a majority. His goons lurked at voting polls and people who were against it were beat up, etc. There was no liberty in any of his actions. He planned on sending black people to Haiti and Liberia. He said the West was for white people and not blacks. He and his generals were horrible. If the South had not had slavery as its economy, the real reasons for war could be shown clearly and unemotionally. Lincoln leaned into emotions and lies because he knew men would not fight for taxes (protection tariffs). These tariffs protected Northern Industrialists, Railroads and Bankers. Among this group were Thaddeus Stevens. He was as tyrannical and self serving as Lincoln and they both claimed moral high ground and ran behind Slavery for cover. This book is well needed. I hope its not too late to turn back the lies perpetuated against a section of the country who wanted to self govern without an over reaching federal centralized government. I have read everyone of the WPAs Slave Narratives. Slavery was wrong and all should be free to choose; however, I have read more favorable narratives from slaves to their masters than not. That tells me there is more to the story that others refuse to consider, and it does not fit a hate narrative. People tell that black slave owners were benevolent and white ones were cruel. Cruelty still exist, and as back then, it has nothing to do with melanin. Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Milroy, Butler, etc. murdered civilians in cold blood without a trial of due process; the lucky ones languished in prison. Many young girls and women, black and white, were raped and made sex slaves by Sherman’s Army. What Sherman did in Roswell, GA should have him properly labeled as the rogue he was, but the truth was hijacked by tyrants, and thus when the truth is told, it is dismissed and those who stood, or now stand, for the right to be self governed, are called traitors. We see so much of this, Today, with the Far Left, we can understand the parallels. Hamilton’s monarchical centralized government has prevailed through Lincoln, Obama, Bushs and Bidens, but Truth is shining brighter and the rogues will not be able to hide behind false narratives. The myth of the lost cause has its polar opposite, and that is the myth of fighting for freedom and saving the Union. It was fought to save Lincoln’s tax tariffs, his and his cronies source of plundered income. It was the only sustaining income the old whigs finally had control of and they seized the moment the South left to centralize everything, including the Banks and they held the South at gunpoint and murdered a million to keep their source and power over it. There were only three ports left outside of the South and the South believed in free trade with some tariffs at 10%, not 46 and 50 percent, like Northern whigs collected through tariffs. It was all about money honey! Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, Stevens and Grant were plunderers and loved it just like their modern day cousins like it and call dissenters racists!

I read this book

And it’s a dud
From cover to cover
Filled with crud
I’ve never heard of so many lies
It’s not even good with chili fries

This book, claiming to "help" people understand th

This book, claiming to "help" people understand the War Between The States, reads like a simplistic, opinionated set of stories written and read to mislead young readers by chipping away at constructs that comprise established history about the United States. Clearly, the effort is to rehash old southern regional arguments that have been obsessed over for many years for a retrospective justification of “honest, good natured” southern beliefs over so-called hostile, selfish and duplicitous northern deceit.
The book begins with emphasizing the necessity of beginning reading with an open mind, yet quickly dissolves into a sloppy ramble of truthfully-challenged shots taken at contemporary and future views and actions objected to by the writer.

This is an amateurish attempt to confuses readers with tired arguments so often made by Civil War revisionists after the war when discussing antebellum reasons for secession. It is a fact that a number of prominent confederate leaders asserted very strongly in 1861 that the war was about slavery, while many of those same “leaders” asserted as, or more strongly, in 1865, that the war was about state rights.

It does seem to me that this is the same suspicious strategy employed by the writers and producers of this book.