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The Dunning School was an informal group of American historians at Columbia University who studied the South during Reconstruction. Historian William Dunning directed many of the PhD dissertations and wrote monographs and a survey.
They began thge serious study of the era, and blamed the failures of the era on the corruption of Carpetbaggers who mislead the Freedmen.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s brought in a new perspective called "Neo-Abolistionist". It used the same facts but stressed the agency of the blacks and downplayed corruption. Some of the new liberal historians ridiculed the biases of the Dunning School without realizing their biases were even stronger.