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

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  • 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

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  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 – via JSTOR.
  5. ^ https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/128/1/490/7098172?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Appearances on C-SPAN