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 Secession: Jefferson Davis 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 (2018) The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North (2020) 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