Dwight L. Dumond
Dwight Lowell Dumond (August 27, 1895–May 30, 1976) was an American academic and author known for his works on slavery. He served as professor emeritus of American history at the University of Michigan. Dumond was born in Kingston, Ohio on August 27, 1895. He completed his undergraduate studies at Baldwin Wallace University in 1920 and graduated from Washington University with a master's degree in 1925. In 1929 he completed a PhD at the University of Michigan. He taught history at Ohio Wesleyan University for one year before moving to the University of Michigan, where he  taught from 1930 to 1965. After his retirement from Michigan he taught at Howard University and Colgate University. He won an Ainsfield-Wolf Book Award for his book "Antislavery" in 1961, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Northern Michigan University in 1965. The University of Michigan has a collection of his papers. He and Gilbert H. Barnes were credited by Merton L. Dillon with reappraising the causes of the American Civil War.