Dunning School

GPTKB entity

Statements (36)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historiographical school
gptkbp:activePeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
gptkbp:associatedWith Columbia University historians
gptkbp:challenge Civil Rights Movement historians
gptkbp:characterizedBy criticism of Radical Republicans
sympathy for Southern whites
gptkbp:criticizedFor gptkb:Eric_Foner
gptkb:W._E._B._Du_Bois
downplaying African American agency
racist interpretations
gptkbp:declinedAfter 1950s
gptkbp:focusesOn gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Dunning School
gptkbp:influenced public perception of Reconstruction
Lost Cause narrative
early 20th-century textbooks
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_W._Burgess
gptkb:William_Archibald_Dunning
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:William_Archibald_Dunning
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:James_Wilford_Garner
gptkb:Charles_William_Ramsdell
gptkb:E._Merton_Coulter
gptkb:J._G._de_Roulhac_Hamilton
gptkb:Thomas_S._Staples
gptkb:Walter_Lynwood_Fleming
gptkb:William_Watson_Davis
Charles W. Ramsdell
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkbp:replacedBy post-revisionist historians
revisionist historians
gptkbp:subjectOf historical reassessment
gptkbp:viewedReconstructionAs failure
period of misgovernment
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Lost_Cause
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6