Reconstruction Era | Counter Narratives | 7
American History Tellers
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The Rise and Fall of Southern Legacy Organizations
William Archibald Dunning was a historian at Columbia University and He and several Historians that he trained started a school of scholarship. Some of this scholarship actually Justified the rise of organizations like the KKK or whitewashed the rise of Organizations like the KKK as well. Mainstream academic historical scholarship does not really revise this until we get maybe into the mid 20th century And what some would call southern legacy organizations Reformed in the wake of reconstruction as well, right?
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