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The '''Dunning School''' was an informal group of American [[historian]]s at [[Columbia University]] who studied [[the South]] during [[Reconstruction]]. Historian [[William Archibald Dunning]] directed many of the Ph.D. dissertations and wrote monographs and a survey.

The '''Dunning School''' was an informal group of American [[historian]]s at [[Columbia University]] who studied [[the South]] during [[Reconstruction]]. Historian [[William Archibald Dunning]] directed many of the Ph.D. dissertations and wrote monographs and a survey.

They began the serious study of the era, and blamed the failures of the era on the [[corruption]] of [[Carpetbaggers]] who misled the Freedmen.

They began the serious study of the era, and blamed the failures of the era on the [[corruption]] of [[Carpetbaggers]] who misled the Freedmen and not [[Klan]] violence against carpetbaggers.

 

The [[Civil Rights Movement]] of the 1960s  brought in a new perspective called "[[Neo-Abolistionist|neoabolitionism]]". It used the same facts but stressed the agency of the [[African American|blacks]] and downplayed corruption.  Some of the new [[liberal]] historians ridiculed the biases of the Dunning School without realizing that their own biases were even stronger.

The [[Civil Rights Movement]] of the 1960s  brought in a new perspective called "[[Neo-Abolistionist|neoabolitionism]]". It used the same facts but stressed the agency of the [[African American|blacks]] and downplayed corruption.  Some of the new [[liberal]] historians ridiculed the biases of the Dunning School without realizing that their own biases were even stronger.