Lectures on the American Civil War , by James Ford Rhodes , LL. D., D. Litt. (Pp. xi, 206) has just been issued by the Macmillan Company. The lectures, of which there are three, were delivered at the University of Oxford during the Easter and Trinity Terms of 1912. The first lecture is devoted to “Antecedents of the American Civil War 1850-1860,” the second covers the period between the election of Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation, and the third brings the story to the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. The book is a fresh, thoughtful, skillful, and interesting epitome of the war. It can be read in three hours.

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"Lectures on the American Civil War", Volume 016, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 437. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v016/n4/review_33.html
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