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

Contents

Contents Foreword by Eric Foner ix Introduction 1 John David Smith 1. John W. Burgess, Godfather of the Dunning School 49 Shepherd W. McKinley 2. William Archibald Dunning: Flawed Colossus of American Letters 77 James S. Humphreys 3. James Wilford Garner and the Dream of a Two-Party South 107 W. Bland Whitley 4. Ulrich B. Phillips: Dunningite or Phillipsian Sui Generis? 133 John David Smith 5. The Steel Frame of Walter Lynwood Fleming 157 Michael W. Fitzgerald 6. Ransack Roulhac and Racism: Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton and Dunning’s Questions of Institution Building and Jim Crow 179 John Herbert Roper Sr. 7. Paul Leland Haworth: The “Black Republican” in the Old Chief’s Court 203 J. Vincent Lowery 8. Charles W. Ramsdell: Reconstruction and the Affirmation of a Closed Society 229 Fred Arthur Bailey 9. The Not-So-Strange Career of William Watson Davis’s The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida 255 Paul Ortiz 10. C. Mildred Thompson: A Liberal among the Dunningites 281 William Harris Bragg Acknowledgments 309 List of Contributors 311 Index 315 ...