"Clopton's Short History of the Confederate States of America" by Carole Scott chronicles history through the eyes of Confederate historians

CARROLLTON, Ga. (MMD Newswire) September 12, 2011 - - Carole Scott's "Clopton's Short History of the Confederate States of America" (ISBN 1463584539) is a fictional history of America had the Confederacy won the Civil War. Its readers will learn what life could have been like in today's fifty states if the Confederate states had gained independence from the United States.

Scott's book is written in the form of an easy to read textbook. According to the author, what makes this book different from other alternative, counterfactual works is that, rather than describing how American history would have been transformed if only one thing had turned out differently - such as a Confederate victory at Gettysburg - several initial changes are made so that the ramifications of several variances from reality can be explored.

In addition to including events and situations that didn't occur ¬- but could have - Scott describes real events from a point of view different from what a reader might see in factual history books because they are told from the point of view of a Confederate historian. Many of the issues included in Scott's book are still important and controversial today. The first chapter of her book covers factual U.S. history, but in addition to being viewed differently, some events will be unfamiliar to most readers because textbooks often ignore them. Scott's book also includes a nonfiction appendix that tells about the activities and views of a number of Northerners and Southerners born both before and after the Civil War.

"Clopton's Short History of the Confederate States of America" is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author:
Carole Scott is a retired professor of economics on the faculty of the Richards College of Business at the University of West Georgia. Since her retirement, she has continued editing the web journal of the Richards College of Business. She graduated from Georgia State University with BBA, MBA and Ph.D. degrees in marketing, finance and economics. One of the areas in which she taught and published was American economic history. She has published many works, including a textbook titled "Your Financial Plan, A Consumers' Guide," a short story in "Analog," a science fiction magazine and articles in professional and non-professional publications in business, economics and history. As a journalist, Scott wrote a weekly newspaper column for the Times-Georgian of Carrollton, Ga., for 30 years. For the past seven years she has written columns, features and news stories, taken photographs, and drawn editorial cartoons for the StarNews of Carrollton. She has often written about the Civil War.