The Dunning school [electronic resource] : historians, race, and the meaning of reconstruction / edited by John David Smith and J. Vincent Lowery ; foreword by Eric Foner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John David Smith -- John W. Burgess, godfather of the Dunning school / Shepherd W. McKinley -- William Archibald Dunning: flawed colossus of American letters / James S. Humphreys -- James Wilford Garner and the dream of a two-party South / W. Bland Whitley -- Ulrich B. Phillips: Dunningite or Phillipsian sui generis? / John David Smith -- The steel frame of Walter Lynwood Fleming / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- Ransack Roulhac and racism: Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton and Dunning's questions of institution building and Jim Crow / John Herbert Roper Sr. -- Paul Leland Haworth: the "black republican" in the old chief's court / J. Vincent Lowery -- Charles W. Ramsdell: Reconstruction and the affirmation of a closed society / Fred Arthur Bailey -- The not-so-strange career of William Watson Davis's The Civil War and reconstruction in Florida / Paul Ortiz -- C. Mildred Thompson: a liberal among the dunningites / William Harris Bragg.

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