Interview with J. David Hacker: An Awful Tally Goes Higher

In December 2011, J. David Hacker, a professor of history at SUNY–Binghamton, made headlines with a study published in the journal Civil War History contending that the longstanding estimate of 620,000 Civil War dead could be 750,000, or even as high as 850,000. He makes his case using census data from 1850 to 1880 to …

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