Views on the nature and causes of the civil war in the United States in the twenty-first century

The article investigates the causes of the conflict between the Northern and Southern States that led to secession and the Civil war of 1861-1865, the article discusses the current research directions of domestic and foreign historians on the subject in the twenty-first century. In particular, the author analyzes the following directions, standing on the agenda of research in recent years: the revival of the ideas of the "new historical science", according to which the cause of the conflict was a combination of unforeseen circumstances and the total voltage between the regions; the study of political rhetoric of the period of "disintegration of the Union”, which contributed to the escalation of social tension; Parabolically power research, which focused on economic and political superiority of slaveholders, and their desire to preserve their wealth; a study of the presidential elections in 1860 and their role in exacerbating the conflict between the North and South; consideration of the growth of nationalism in both regions as one of the main determinants of the military conflict and the Civil war in the works of African-American researchers only as an episode in the war for the liberation of African Americans. In the end, the author makes a conclusion about a significant transformation of views of the specified event for the last 15 years, and comes to her own conclusion about the causes of the Civil war in the United States.