William Archibald Dunning

William Archibald Dunning
Born(1857-05-12)12 May 1857
Died25 August 1922(1922-08-25) (aged 65)
Alma materColumbia University
Occupation(s)Professor, author
Parent(s)John H. Dunning and Catherine D. Trelease
Academic career
School or traditionDunning School
InstitutionsColumbia University
Notable studentsCharles Merriam
InfluencesHeinrich von Treitschke
Influenced

William Archibald Dunning (12 May 1857 – 25 August 1922)[1] was an American historian and political scientist at Columbia University noted for his work on the Reconstruction era of the United States.[2] He founded the informal Dunning School of interpreting the Reconstruction era through his own writings and the Ph.D. dissertations of his numerous students.

Dunning has been criticized for advocating white supremacist interpretations, his "blatant use of the discipline of history for reactionary ends"[3] and for offering "scholarly legitimacy to the disenfranchisement of southern blacks and to the Jim Crow system."[4]

  1. ^ "William A. Dunning Biography". historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  2. ^ Merriam, Charles E. (1926). "Masters of Social Science: William Archibald Dunning". Social Forces. 5 (1): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3004799. ISSN 0037-7732.
  3. ^ Gordon-Reed, Annette (26 October 2015). "What If Reconstruction Hadn't Failed?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  4. ^ Smith, John David; Lowery, J. Vincent, eds. (18 October 2013). The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-8131-4225-8. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

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