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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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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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Who the Hell Is William Dunning? The Man Behind the Distortion of Reconstruction

During the first half of the 20th Century William Dunning of Columbia University was the seminal figure in the study of the Reconstruction Era. Dunning,…

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Podcast: Eric Foner Interviewed on Reconstruction

Here is an interesting podcast of an interview with Eric Foner, the preeminent living scholar of Reconstruction. The sound quality is only OK and the…

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