The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States

What can Americans learn about our divided country today from the Civil War that divided us in the past?

Connor Williams’s The Confederacy Myth answers that question with a blistering historical exposé that reframes our understanding of the Confederacy towards with what it really was - a relatively small insurrection of uncompromising fanatics that plunged the nation into its deadliest war.

In his new book, Williams reveals the truth about the Confederacy by unraveling its myths and uncover...