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For example, can they provide the textbook where "Today American children are taught in the nation’s schools, both in the North and South, that it was wrong for people to support the Confederacy and to fight and die for it"?
"Only the United States and Haiti freed their slaves by war. Every other country in the New World that had slaves, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, freed them in the 19th century peacefully." Thank goodness they learned from our experience...
"the war freed four million slaves into poverty"... and a liberterian is in favor of '40 acres and a mule' or some other 'handout'?
"Although certainly a contentious political issue and detested by abolitionists, in 1861 slavery nevertheless was not a major public issue." Apparently the textbooks used above have no cites for the major issues of the 1850s from the compromise of 1850, through the Kansas-Nebraska act, the Dred Scott decision to John Brown and others...
"Why were business and political leaders in the North so intent on keeping the southern states in the Union? It was, to paraphrase Charles Dickens, solely a fiscal matter." So, Dickens, the british novelist and social critic is an economist as well...
"Lincoln coerced the South to fire the first shots..." yeah, right...
With essays like this, the problem is not what is incorrect but where to begin...
HankC