Forum on Eric Foner's "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions".

The article offers the reactions of Civil War historians to Eric Foner's 1974 essay "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions." Topics include the debate that emerged regarding the distinctions between fundamentalists and revisionists after several years of scholarship over the Civil War's causes, the implication of the collapse of the modernization theory of the war's causes, and historian Kellie Carter Jackson's arguments on the Civil War and slavery.