This @AdamSerwer survey of the 1619 is, as one would expect, very fair minded, informed, and accurate https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/ …
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Wilentz characterization of the Dunning school strikes me as a far bigger historical blunder than anything the 1619 project has been accused of. Yet it won't make a ripple.
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"After the Revolutionary War, many northern states rapidly passed laws to abolish slavery, but New Jersey did not abolish it until 1804, and then in a process of gradual emancipation similar to that of New York. But, in New Jersey, some slaves were held as late as 1865."
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New Jersey voted for McClellan in 1864, and later elected him governor. In 1868, it backed Horatio Seymour.
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Yes, but Dunning trained the next generation of historians and many of the most famous of those years (Hamilton, Phillips, Garner, etc.) were either Southern or did most of their work in the South. Dunning was actually a bleh writer, he was MUCH more influential as a teacher
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You can read the Dunning influence in Profiles In Courage
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Um, he's talking about the Dunning School representing the white Southern pro-segregation view, not where Dunning was born or taught.
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This point of view didn't just exist in the South but was the white American consensus. To treat it as just a Southern thing is to understate its influence & also to whitewash American history.
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Fwiw I understood him to be arguing that Dunning et al reflected the Southern racist perspective (being so influenced by Burgess) not that Dunning was literally a Southerner.
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Yeah, I can see that as the intent -- although even there it's a mistake on Wilentz's part. The thing about the Dunning school was it represented not just a Southern point of view but a white American consensus that suited post-Reconstruction politics.
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