Ellis Merton Coulter (1890–1981) was an American historian of the South, author, and a founding member of the Southern Historical Association. For four decades, he was a professor at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where he was chair of the History Department for 18 years. He was editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly for 50 years, and published 26 books on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. He was an apologist for slavery, supported white supremacy, and degraded African Americans and Reconstruction era efforts to advance civil and political rights.
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1890
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1981 (aged 90)
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