Paul D. Escott

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.

Writings

*''Many Excellent People; Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900'' (1988)
*''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)
*''The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North'' (2020)https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/128/1/490/7098172?redirectedFrom=fulltext
*''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''

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Appearances
on C-SPAN
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Duke University alumni
Harvard College alumni
Wake Forest University faculty
21st-century historians