Journal of a graduate student in military history and the American Civil War
The folks at the Berkeley’s public affairs office confirmed for me today that Kenneth M. Stampp died. His book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956) is required reading in my program and rightly so. The view into slavery was groundbreaking.
A full obituary will be posted shortly on Berkeley’s news site.
Condolences to his family.
(http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/13_stampp.shtml)
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Rene,
Saw your post last night. It was the first I heard of Prof. Stampp’s death. He was an outstanding historian. Luckily for us, his works live on.
elektratig
July 15, 2009 at 5:25 am
Completely agree!! Top notch!
Rene
Rene Tyree
July 15, 2009 at 8:58 pm