Ted Tunnell is a history professor and author in the United States. He has taught history at Virginia Commonwealth University.[1] He wrote a book about the Reconstruction era in Louisiana, edited Marshall Twitchell's autobiography,[2] and wrote a book about him. He appears on film in an interview for the show American Experience discussing Twitchell.[3][4]
In 2010, Tunnell was quoted in an article about a Virginia textbook erroneously stating that many African Americans fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War stating there were only a handful. Regarding the claim that there were thousands, he stated: "I would say all professional historians at universities would say it's grossly exaggerated."[5]
Works
edit- Tunnell, Ted (1992). Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862--1877. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1803-0.[6]
- Carpetbagger from Vermont: The Autobiography of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, editor, Baton Rouge, 1989[7]
- Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction Louisiana State University Press (2000)[8][9][10][11]
- Tunnell, Ted (November 2006). "Creating 'The Propaganda of History': Southern Editors and the Origins of 'Carpetbagger and Scalawag'". The Journal of Southern History. 72 (4): 789–822. doi:10.2307/27649233. JSTOR 27649233.
- Tunnell, Ted (2000). "Warmoth, Henry Clay (1842-1931), Reconstruction governor of Louisiana". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0401035. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
References
edit- ^ Education, Mike FrontieroVCU School of. "VCU history professor featured in PBS program on reconstruction, airs nationwide Jan. 12-13". VCU News.
- ^ "Carpetbagger suffered violence of the war and aftermath". 5 December 1990.
- ^ "American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University, part 5 of 5" – via americanarchive.org.
- ^ "American Experience; Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University". www.digitalcommonwealth.org.
- ^ "History textbook stirs controversy about Civil War". www.nbc12.com. 21 October 2010.
- ^ Renshaw, Patrick (December 1985). "Ted Tunnell, Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism and Race in Louisiana, 1862–1877 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1984, £23.75). Pp. 257. ISBN 0 8071 1181 3. - Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1947–1982 (London: Macmillan, 1984, £12, £5.95 paperback). Pp. 249. ISBN 0 333 32010 7". Journal of American Studies. 19 (3): 462–464. doi:10.1017/S0021875800015723.
- ^ Currie, Ruth Douglas (2003). "Review of Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction". The Journal of Southern History. 69 (1): 198–199. doi:10.2307/30039892. JSTOR 30039892. Gale A97909085.
- ^ "Green on Tunnell, 'Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction' | H-CivWar | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
- ^ Richter, William L. (2001). "Review of Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 60 (4): 432–434. doi:10.2307/40038261. JSTOR 40038261. ProQuest 213346302.
- ^ "Ted Tunnell. Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 326. $34.95". The American Historical Review. April 2002. doi:10.1086/ahr/107.2.550-a.
- ^ Gardner, Sarah E (2003). "Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction (review)". Civil War History. 49 (1): 96–97. doi:10.1353/cwh.2003.0008. Project MUSE 39465.