Paul David Escott Author

Paul David Escott is the Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University. He has authored over a dozen books on Southern and Civil War history. Most recently, he has published Lincoln’s Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era (2014); Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States (2014); and The Confederacy: The Slaveholders’ Failed Venture (2011).