‘How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America’

Boston College History Professor Heather Cox Richardson has created quite a stir with her 2020 book, “‘How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America.” She doesn’t mean the South literally won the civil war, of course. The argument that the South won the peace by thwarting Reconstruction and impos…