Dwight L. Dumond

Dwight Lowell Dumond (August 27, 1895–May 30, 1976)[1] was an American Writer known for his distinguished works on slavery. He served as professor emeritus of American history at the University of Michigan.[2]

Dumond was born in Kingston, Ohio on August 27, 1895.[1] He completed his undergraduate studies at Baldwin Wallace University in 1920 and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a master's degree in 1925. In 1929 he completed a PhD at the University of Michigan.[2] He taught history at Ohio Wesleyan University for one year before moving to the University of Michigan, where he taught from 1930 to 1965.[1] After his retirement from Michigan he taught at Howard University and Colgate University. He won an Ainsfield-Wolf Book Award for his book Antislavery in 1961, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Northern Michigan University in 1965. The University of Michigan has a collection of his papers.[2]

He and Gilbert H. Barnes were credited by Merton L. Dillon with reappraising the causes of the American Civil War.[3]

Books
  • The Secession Movement (1931)
  • Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grinke Weld and Sarah Grinke 1822-1844, Volumes I-II, co-edited with Gilbert H. Barnes (January 1, 1934)
  • Roosevelt to Roosevelt (1937)
  • Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States (1939)
  • A History of the United States (1942)
  • America in Our Time (1947)
  • Black Mother: the Years of the African Slave Trade (1961)
  • Antislavery; Crusade for Freedom in America (1961)
  • A Bibliography of Antislavery in America (1961)[4]
  • America's Shame and Redemption (1965)

References
  1. Dumond, Dwight Lowell. "Dwight L. Dumond papers". quod.lib.umich.edu.
  2. "Dwight Lowell Dumond Dead; Historian Wrote About Slavery". The New York Times. June 2, 1976 – via NYTimes.com.
  3. Dillon, Merton L. (1993). "Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond: An Appraisal". Reviews in American History. 21 (3): 539–552. doi:10.2307/2702795. JSTOR 2702795 – via JSTOR.
  4. "Dumond, Dwight Lowell, 1895– | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.


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