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

by John David Smith (Editor), J. Vincent Lowery (Editor), Eric Foner (Foreword by)

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

Author Biography

John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including An Old Creed for the New South, Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro, and Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops.

J. Vincent Lowery is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay.