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. |