Revisionist History of War Conference

The Revisionist Economic History of the Civil War

Mark Thornton, Revisionist History of War Conference, 2025
Mark Thornton

Why did the South lose the Civil War? Mark Thornton argues Vicksburg—not Gettysburg—was key, revealing how Confederate economic failures sealed their fate.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on May 16, 2025.