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Fighting with the Past Fiona Walton and historical boundaries to exploreCivil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of the 1600s. Northerners and Southerners alike drew from histories of the English past to make sense of their own conflict, interpreting the events of the