The Dunning School

I'm sure most of us hate the opinion of Dunning in regard to Reconstruction. His views created an inaccurate and biased ideology that persisted for several decades after his death. Even though the racial prejudice and hate is evident in Dunnings account, it's important to point out that he was as much of an active participant in Reconstruction as anyone else. Dunnings "academic" research demonstrates how Reconstruction not only affected the South and the North politically, but it went as far as to pervade the minds of scholars who were supposed to be neutral.