Yup. (Formerly) Southern professor. Some of them infect the college level with their bullshit.

can confirm. i graduated in the late aughts and was taught (by my ap us history teacher no less) that the civil war was absolutely not about slavery. He did the whole ‘it was about state’s rights!!’ thing.

The civil war was about who was supposed to govern the area. It was very slow burning, but the snapphanar was more like a militia than ordinary bandits. Now they probably would be classified as terrorists. Ive never heard anyone say it was about slavery, afaik there where no conflict between the south, the swedes nor the danes about slavery.

Or did you mean another civil war?

the civil war wasn’t over slavery.

They were kind of right.

I grew up in Texas and was taught the American Civil War was over slavery, and my husband grew up in Iowa and was taught that war was over state's rights. This was thirty years ago, but at least then the narrative split didn't have any neat north/south distribution.