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Eugene D. Genovese
American historian
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- The Imaginative Conservative - Biography of Eugene Genovese
- Solidarity - Biography of Eugene Genovese
- The Washington Post - Eugene Genovese, eminent historian, dies at 82
- The American Conservative - Biography of Eugene D. Genovese
- The New York Times - Eugene D. Genovese, Historian of South, Dies at 82
- Los Angeles Times - Eugene Genovese Dies at 82; Leftist Historian Turned Conservative
- Abbeville Institute - The Unemancipated Country: Eugene Genovese’s Discovery of the Old South
Also known as: Eugene Dominick Genovese
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Eugene Dominick Genovese
- Also Known As:
- Eugene Dominick Genovese
- Subjects Of Study:
- American Civil War
- slavery
Eugene D. Genovese (born May 19, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 26, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia) was an American historian. He earned a doctorate at Columbia University and taught at Rutgers, Columbia, Cambridge, and elsewhere. He is known for his writings on the American Civil War and slavery, especially Roll, Jordan, Roll (1974) and The Slaveholders’ Dilemma (1992). He advanced his argument in A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (1998).