Paul D. Escott Explained

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

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paul Escott – Department of History.
2. Web site: Many Excellent People | Paul D. Escott. University of North Carolina Press.
3. Web site: Rethinking the Civil War Era.
4. Book: White Supremacy in the Civil War North. Escott, Paul D.. 2020. University of Virginia Press . JSTOR. 10.2307/j.ctvw1d54q. j.ctvw1d54q . 241705385 .
5. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/128/1/490/7098172?redirectedFrom=fulltext