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James M. McPherson. Edward L. Ayers. Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics.
C. Vann Woodward (born Nov. 13, 1908, Vanndale, Ark., U.S.—died Dec. 17, 1999, Hamden, Conn.) was an American historian and educator who became the leading interpreter of the post-Civil War history of the American South.
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C. VANN WOODWARD. CC VANN WOODWARD, Sterling Professor of History emer- itus at Yale University, the most widely admired historian. of the United States in the twentieth century, died at his home in Hamden, Connecticut, on 17 December 1999. He was ninety-one years old.
C. Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908–December 17, 1999), Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, was one of the most influential historians of 20th-century America and the history of the American South. In 1982 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his edited volume, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War.
Quick Reference. (1908–1999), premier historian of the American South, divided his career between Johns Hopkins (1946–61) and Yale (1961–77), where he was Sterling Professor of History. Woodward has concentrated on the American ... From: Woodward, C [omer] Vann in The Oxford Companion to American Literature ».
With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, h...
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The writings of historian C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) challenged the widely-held misconceptions regarding Southern civil rights issues that developed after the American Civil War Reconstruction period.
