History can be controversial, and the history of a struggle such as the American Civil War can easily, by its very nature, be especially controversial.  This part of the website contains links to discussions I have produced (with one exception, done by a friend) regarding books on the Civil War that have not measured up, in my opinion, in terms of accuracy or quality of scholarship.

One has to be careful in doing this.  I am certain that the people who wrote these books did so entirely out of a good faith belief that they were doing sound work.  They had every right to compose these works and publish their conclusions and reap whatever rewards they were able to earn.  (One might criticize the judgment of the editors who thought it was a good idea to publish these books, but I won’t do that.)  In the same way, anyone else (such as the present Author/Publisher) has the right to compose and publish criticisms or rebuttals to their work.

So, what do we have here?

• Thomas DiLorenzo's The Real Lincoln.
• Charles Adams's When in the Course of Human Events.
• John Tilley's Facts the Historians Leave Out