Explore Carroll: Might Civil War have been averted without Lincoln?

Explore Carroll: Might Civil War have been averted without Lincoln?

Might Civil War have been averted without Lincoln?

Speaker at CCC conference follows historic speculation

By Bob Allen

Posted 3/13/11

"It is too easy for historians to merely ratify the past and suggest what happened had to happen."

-- Historian Gabor Boritt, author of "Why the Civil War Came"

In an era of political correctness, author and Civil War historian Lawrence Denton knows he's apt to raise hackles whenever he, figuratively speaking, knocks Abraham Lincoln off his marble pedestal.

Or when he ventures into the realm of what might have been, as prompted by the quote, above, from retired Gettysburg College teacher and historian Gabor Boritt.

"Much of history nowadays is dominated by political correctness," said Denton, a retired educator and administrator who now lives in Oxford.

"My talk is not."

On March 19, at Carroll Community College's annual conference, "Maryland and the Civil War: A Regional Perspective," Denton will talk about the controversial theories he developed in his 2009 book, "William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War.".. http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5240/might-civil-war-have-been-averted-without-lincoln/

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