The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth Stampp (Editor), Michael F. Holt (Designed by), James M. McPherson (Designed by). The Author's thesis in this book was that slavery was not a cause of the war. He calls attention to how current understanding of the world and the outcome of the war allows people to unwisely assign a moral purpose to the hostilities that only gradually developed during the conflict. He reminds the reader that history is untidy, that the causes of the war are complex, and that no simple answers exist. Kenneth Stamps says that the causes of the civil war comes from a lot of different things like slavery. Kenneth confirms this by giving us an example that the Northerners opposed to Slavery as an institution in the South,
