When it comes to understanding the horror that was American slavery, there are two periods: Before Kenneth Stampp and after Kenneth Stampp. Before Stampp, slaves were written about in history ...

Kenneth Stampp, 96, a historian who helped transform the study of slavery in the United States by exposing plantation owners as practical businessmen, not romantics defending a noble heritage ...

Kenneth M. Stampp, 96, a historian who helped transform the study of slavery in the United States by exposing plantation owners as practical businessmen, not romantics defending a noble heritage ...

Too many people believe that slavery is a “peculiar institution.” That’s what Kenneth Stampp called slavery in his book, “Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.” ...

Kenneth Stampp, a University of California, Berkeley, historian whose repudiation of the benign, paternalistic interpretations of slavery that had prevailed for more than 100 years permanently ...

Usually, if we know the barest amount about the evils of what historian Kenneth Stampp labeled the ”Peculiar Institution,” we condemn slavery on moral, emotional or sentimental grounds.

The New York Times’ “1619 Project” focused on linking the extreme harshness of slavery to the black experience of today. But overstating this link is misleading and promotes inaccurate ...

Impenitent Losers. In this reassessment of the period after Appomattox, Kenneth Stampp, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, calls the Southern version dead wrong.

Too many people believe that slavery is a “peculiar institution.” That’s what Kenneth Stampp called slavery in his book, “Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.” ...

Kenneth Stampp, the Berkeley professor and author of such notable works as “The Peculiar Institution,” has now completed another important book, this time concentrating on the coming of the ...

Kenneth Stampp, professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley will deliver the lectures in History 61b next spring, it was announced yesterday. Stampp will replace Arthur M.