The Dunning School
Smith, John David / Lowery, J Vincent![The Dunning School](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/147/14725471/CHSBZCOP0314725471.jpg)
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...