Civil War historian Kenneth Stampp dies at 96
| 13 July 2009
BERKELEY — Kenneth M. Stampp, an emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading scholar of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, died on Friday (July 10). He was 96.
His signature book was "The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South" (1956), which debunked numerous myths about slavery and documented how what slave owners called "the peculiar institution" actually operated, including active and extensive resistance by African Americans.
A complete obituary will be available later on the UC Berkeley NewsCenter.