Paul D. Escott

Paul D. Escott is a professor emeritus, historian, and author. He is a professor at Wake Forest University and served as the college's dean for nine years. He has written some 13 books.

He graduated with a B.A. from Harvard College and with M.A. and P.h.D. degrees from Duke University. ^[1]

Writings

• Many Excellent People; Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900 (1988) ^[2]
• Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives
• "What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America (University of Virginia (2009)
• After Succession
• Lincoln’s Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
• Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
• Rethinking the Civil War Era; Directions for Research University of Kentucky Press (2018) ^[3]
• The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North (2020) ^{[4] [5]}
• Black Suffrage; Lincoln's Last Goal
• The Civil War Political Tradition; The Portraits of Those Who Formed It
• The South for New Southerners, co-editor
• Major Problems in the History of the American South; Volume I; The Old South, co-editor
• Paying Freedom's Price
• Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy

References

1. "Paul Escott – Department of History".
2. "Many Excellent People | Paul D. Escott". University of North Carolina Press.
3. "Rethinking the Civil War Era".
4. Escott, Paul D. (2020). White Supremacy in the Civil War North. University of Virginia Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvw1d54q. JSTOR   j.ctvw1d54q. S2CID   241705385.
5. Smith, Michael T. (2023). "Paul D. Escott. The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North" . The American Historical Review. 128: 490–491. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhad059.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN