What happens when a clinical psychologist converses with a professor of cultural literacy? You get this: a clear-eyed look at why the U.S. Civil War's cause stays so hard for some Americans to face. As the nation turns 250, co-authors Dr. Debbe Deane and Dr. Lorise "Rise" Diamond draw on cognitive dissonance, the Confederacy's own secession documents, and Frederick Douglass to offer the nation an invitation to tell our story whole.