The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

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A kick off for a discussion for the Dunning school discussion. This is just a gathering of references for now.

Previous CWT thread from
2008 Dunning school of false truth.
Dec 2105 Is it necessary to read William Dunning to understand Reconstruction? Reconstruction150

Eric Foner
It is a peculiarity of the historical profession that it displays remarkably little interest in its own history. For this reason alone, a volume on the Dunning School—the first generation of university-trained historians to study the Reconstruction era—is extremely welcome. These essays offer fascinating insights into not only their scholarly writings but also their intellectual formation, social backgrounds, personal experiences, research methods, and the overall trajectories of their careers. The book provides an introduction to an important group of historians, as well as a sad reminder of the price paid when racial prejudice shapes historical judgment.
John David Smith
In 1916 the historian Arthur C. Cole of the University of Illinois noted the emergence of what he termed the new “southern school of historians.” The pupils, largely “historical students of southern birth and breeding” and “representatives of the new south,” had “migrated northward to the class room of a northern guide and philosopher to receive words of wisdom and inspiration.”¹ Their school was Columbia University in New York City, and their teacher was Professor William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922), one of the most important figures in developing and legitimizing southern history and the Reconstruction era as research fields. During...
James S. Humphreys
The influence of the American historian William Archibald Dunning hovers over the study of United States history and political science like a ghostly apparition, one that modern scholars have found impossible to avoid. Dunning arguably contributed more than any other scholar to those two fields, when both were in their nascent stages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His scholarly corpus of writing included forty-three articles on history and political science topics, two books on the Reconstruction era, and three works on Western political theory.¹ Dunning also played a major role in the development of the American Historical...


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