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Paul D. Escott

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in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

July 31, 1947

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https://escott.sites.wfu.edu/

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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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 242 ratings · 22 reviews · 35 distinct works

	Major Problems in the History of the American South: Documents and Essays, Volume II The New South (Major Problems in American History Series) by Paul D. Escott (Editor), David R. Goldfield (Editor), Sally G. McMillen (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Problems in the History of the American South : Documents and Essays: Volume 1 by Paul D. Escott, David Goldfield, Sally G. McMillen 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln's Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	South for New Southerners by Paul D. Escott, David R. Goldfield (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era (46 books)
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“All wars leave a legacy of bitterness and hatred, but internecine conflicts create the deepest scars. There is something different about such intrafamilial conflicts. People who once were part of one national family divide, define each other as the hateful enemy, and aim for the jugular. On both sides of an internecine conflict there is a feeling of betrayal, a sense that those who were brothers or sisters have been traitorous to their commitments or to the nation [1].”
― Paul D. Escott, Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States

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“War cannot eliminate differing ideas and viewpoints, and partisans of the defeated side do not disappear. Though subjugated, they become a sizable political constituency in the postwar period. A dictator may be able to repress them, and in democracies a numerical majority may outvote them, but neither can change their thoughts. Since civil wars are, by nature, deep and fundamental conflicts, the competition between the views that led to war is likely to resurface. The defeated side may be chastened or subdued, but its values and ways of seeing the world reappear, in some form, in politics [107].”
― Paul D. Escott, Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States

tags: civil-war, defeat, division, peace, spain, split, usa, victory, war

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“What southern whites further sought, and in a sense demanded, was respect. This the North provided after 1876 in paeans to the courage and dedication of soldiers on both sides. Resentment of northern power, the war’s destruction, and Reconstruction continued to be strong in the South, and the work of white-supremacist politicians, army veterans, and southern women turned that resentment into a long-lasting ideology of the Lost Cause. Northerners, for their part, congratulated themselves on winning the war and freeing the slaves; they also took pleasure in feeling superior to the South for many generations, while industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and other social changes diverted much of their attention from wartime issues [184].”
― Paul D. Escott, Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States

tags: civil-war, memory, usa, war

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