Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion (University of Virginia Press, 2001)

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Please consider these questions while reading “Apostles of Disunion”. Let these inform and guide your reading, rather than necessarily serve as a list to be answered in your essay. Why did Charles Dew write Apostles of Disunion? What contribution is he making to the larger scholarship, that is, how is he contributing to or pushing back against the work of previous historians? What kinds of sources is he using to make his argument? Can we see a difference between the rationable of the “first-wave” secessionists and those who came later?