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The Dunning School - Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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The Dunning School - Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of
Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the
renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857--1922). Known as
the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of
state studies on the Reconstruction -- volumes that generally
sympathized with white southerners, interpreted radical
Reconstruction as a mean-spirited usurpation of federal power, and
cast the Republican Party as a coalition of carpetbaggers,
freedmen, scalawags, and former Unionists. Edited by the
award-winning historian John David Smith and J. Vincent Lowery, The
Dunning School focuses on this controversial group of historians
and its scholarly output. Despite their methodological limitations
and racial bias, the Dunning historians' writings prefigured the
sources and questions that later historians of the Reconstruction
would utilize and address. Many of their pioneering dissertations
remain important to ongoing debates on the broad meaning of the
Civil War and Reconstruction and the evolution of American
historical scholarship. This groundbreaking collection of original
essays offers a fair and critical assessment of the Dunning School
that focuses on the group's purpose, the strengths and weaknesses
of its constituents, and its legacy. Squaring the past with the
present, this important book also explores the evolution of
historical interpretations over time and illuminates the ways in
which contemporary political, racial, and social questions shape
historical analyses.
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