{"product_id":"the-dunning-school-historians-race-and-the-meaning-of-reconstruction-hardcover","title":"The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn David Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJ. Vincent Lowery\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEric Foner\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn David Smith\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAn Old Creed for the New South\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and \u003c\/i\u003eThe American Negro, and \u003ci\u003eLincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Vincent Lowery\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 338\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283149713510,"sku":"9780813142258","price":78.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/cVNOUENHancxV3JwZkdqMUVOaXpjUT09.webp?v=1766580096","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-dunning-school-historians-race-and-the-meaning-of-reconstruction-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}