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
- Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives
- "What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America
- After Seccession: Jefferson David and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism
- 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
- The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North
- 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''