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Scott Spillman

Scott Spillman
Scott Spillman received his PhD in history from Stanford University. His writing has appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and The Point. He lives in Denver, Colorado.


How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

Scott Spillman on the Scholarship and Intellectual Legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and Other Academics
March 10, 2025  By Scott Spillman
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