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American Conservative Article In Dunning School Tradition Draws Criticism

A new article by Helen Andrews in The American Conservative, Reconstruction Revisionism, is garnering negative critiques from many other writers. Her article claims that interpreting…

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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…

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Reading William Dunning, Founder of the Dunning School: A Deep Dive Into Scholarly Supremacism

While William Dunning is often discussed in Reconstruction Era Studies, he is little read today except by academic historians and Neo-Confederates. I think that it…

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