Education to the Rescue
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September 1, 2006July 25, 2022View

Education to the Rescue

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In the early 1900’s, Reconstruction studies (excluding the work of W.E.B. DuBois) approved quick restoration of states, Andrew Johnson’s strict constitutionalism, and white Southerners’ revolt against military and Republican rule (which consisted of carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freedmen).  These studies—named the “Dunning School” for historian William A. Dunning, whose students applied his interpretation to individual Southern...

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November 1, 2005June 21, 2022Vital Signs

A Different Past

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Sometimes historical scholarship tells us more about the present than about the past. In June 2005, an exhibit of Omar ibn Said’s The Life, the only known autobiography written by an American black while in bondage, was on display in the lobby of the U.N. headquarters.  What made it even more significant was that The...