Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association (2021)

From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern nation. Southerners argued that because the Confederate nation was cast in the same mold as its European counterparts, it deserved independence. In Newest Born of Nations, Ann Tucker utilizes print sources such as newspap...