Rethinking Atlantic Historiography in a Postcolonial Era: The Civil War in a Global Perspective

New Approaches to Internationalizing the History of the Civil War Era: An Introduction

“…While noting an earlier admonition from David M. Potter to "internationalize the Civil War era," Egerton observed that "there is much yet to do." 4 Internationalizing the history of the American Civil War remains challenging nonetheless. After all, extremely strong historiographical currents tend to direct students of the era through a deeply grooved trench of domestic events that James Huston has dubbed "the sequence"-Texas annexation, the Mexican American War, the Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, the Harpers Ferry raid, the secession crisis, war, emancipation, and Reconstruction.…”