The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been

　　What If? It's a question that enthralls history readers, especially as it applies to the South and the Civil War. Roger Ransom, a highly respected historian of the period, mixes the evidence of actual events with a shrewd imagination to build an extended history of the Confederate States of America, from their victory in the Civil War through their postwar independence. Would the remnant United States have held together after a defeat in the Civil War? Would the Confederate States have ended slavery? Ransom offers some compelling answers.