"'He was really a pioneer, demolishing the magnolia and mint juleps view of slavery,' said Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia. 'And the Reconstruction book was in the same revisionist mode, sweeping away myths. Among serious history scholars, nobody is going to go back before Stampp.'"
Bruce Webber in The New York Times writes an obituary for Kenneth M. Stampp.
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