CSPAN2 Book TV September 6, 2009
>> i was interested in the question of sort of why we fight wars and then how we explain those. and that for me emergencies as the most important element is that confederates for a long time, particularly for lower and nonslave-holding confederates be the argument has been it's an somewhat irrational whar it doesn't make sense for them to fight and my argument -- what i-tell my students we have to give historic actors the same they had to ourselves. we explain things to us in a way to make sense and they did the same thing and trying to figure out why they started and continued over ...
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