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- In full:
- Eugene Dominick Genovese
- Subjects Of Study:
- American Civil War
- slavery
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Eugene D. Genovese
American historian
Also known as: Eugene Dominick Genovese
Eugene D. Genovese (born May 19, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.ādied 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 Slaveholdersā 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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