Jordan, Winthrop Donaldson
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▪ 2008
American historian, educator, and author
born Nov. 11, 1931 , Worcester, Mass.
died Feb. 23, 2007 , Oxford, Miss.
explored the nature of race in meticulously researched works that included
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812 (1968), which won numerous prizes, including a National Book Award, and
The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States (1974). In addition, he wrote
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy (1993), an account of a failed slave uprising in 1861 and its aftermath that he cobbled together, using little-known documents, and
The United States (1976; with Leon F. Litwack), a college textbook. Jordan taught (1963–82) at the University of California, Berkeley, before he joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi, from which he retired in 2004.
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