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Eugene D. Genovese

American historian
Also known as: Eugene Dominick Genovese
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Eugene Dominick Genovese
Born:
May 19, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died:
September 26, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia (aged 82)
Subjects Of Study:
American Civil War
slavery
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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).

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