Category: Dunning School
William Dunning Explains the Undoing of Reconstruction
This is the final installment of our Dunning Deep Dive. William Dunning was the leading academic writer on Reconstruction during the first half of the…
Teen Vogue: The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well
Teen Vogue’s new article The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters is out this week. Here is an…
Another Deep Dive Into the Writing of William Dunning the Historian Neo-Confederates Love
Earlier we discussed William, Dunning, a Columbia University professor who so shaped 20th Century understanding of Reconstruction that the field was dominated by the “Dunning…
Martin Luther King on How the History of Reconstruction Was Distorted
Martin Luther King delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech,…
The New Attack on W.E.B. DuBois Is Very Much the Same Old Attack
W.E.B. DuBois was already getting a lot of attention last year because of his association with Critical Race Theory. The fact that he has been…
Eric Foner on the Making and Breaking of Robert E. Lee’s Legend
A month ago the New York Times had an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner on “The Making and the Breaking of the Legend…
Columbia University Report by Eric Foner Detailed Links to Slavery
Columbia University in New York issued a report in 2017 on its connections to slavery. Read about it in the New York Times. The report…
Remembering Racist Historian of Reconstruction William Dunning at His Columbia University Alma Mater
William Dunning was a Columbia Man. He was an undergrad, a graduate student, and a professor there, after having been expelled from Dartmouth as a…
Eric Foner on the Impact of the Dunning School on the Understanding of Reconstruction: Videos
Historian Eric Foner’s course on Reconstruction was videoed a few years ago and posted on-line. These segments look at the influence of the Dunning School…
William Dunning Explains the Restoration of Peace (and White Supremacy) in 1877 When Reconstruction Collapsed
This is the final installment of a four-part series on historian William Dunning. While the recent rise of the so-called Alt-Right has been a sad…
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