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Author Smith, John David, 1949-

Title Slavery, race, and American history : historical conflict, trends, and method, 1866-1953 / John David Smith
Published Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1999]
©1999

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Description xvi, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Contents I. Conflicts. 1. George H. Moore: "Tormentor of Massachusetts" 2. James Ford Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, and the Passing of the Amateur Historian of Slavery. 3. W. E. B. Du Bois and Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: Symbolic Antagonists of the Progressive Era. 4. Historical or Personal Criticism? The Case of Frederic Bancroft versus Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. 5. The Historiographic Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips -- II. Trends. 6. Alfred Holt Stone: Mississippi Planter and Archivist/Historian of Slavery. 7. Neglected but Not Forgotten: Howell M. Henry and the "Police Control" of Slaves in South Carolina. 8. A Different View of Slavery: Black Historians Attack the New Proslavery Argument, 1890-1920. 9. The Unveiling of Slave Folk Culture, 1865-1920. 10. E. Merton Coulter, the "Dunning School," and The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky. 11. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's World Tour and the Study of Comparative Plantation Societies
12. A Southern Historian on Tour: Clement Eaton's Travels Through the New South -- III. Method. 13. "Keep 'Em in a Fire-Proof Vault": Pioneer Southern Historians Discover Plantation Records. 14. The Historian as Archival Advocate: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the Records of Georgia and the South. 15. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863: The Historian as Documentary Editor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index
Subject African Americans -- Historiography.
Historians -- United States -- History.
Racism -- United States -- Historiography.
Slavery -- United States -- Historiography.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
LC no. 98041941
ISBN 0765603772 (alk. paper)
0765603780 (paperback)