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C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, a town named after his mother's family and the county seat from 1886 to 1903. It was in Cross County in eastern Arkansas. Woodward attended high school in Morrilton, Arkansas. He attended Henderson-Brown College, a small Methodist school in Arkadelphia, for two years.
Woodward graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1930, took a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1932, and received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1937.
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Mar 1, 2000 · Half of Vann Woodward’s many achievements would satisfy the ambitions of most of his admirers. The tempo of his publishing increased after he moved to Yale in 1961 from Johns Hopkins University, where he had taught since 1946.
Oct 13, 2022 · Born in 1908 in Vanndale, Arkansas, he was a product of a white supremacist milieu that generated wealth through the Jim Crow exploitation of Black labor. That wealth gave the white C. Vann Woodward the support he needed to pursue a fine education.
May 17, 2018 · Comer Vann Woodward (born 1908), American historian, is one of the leading interpreters of southern history and race relations. Comer Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas in 1908. He graduated from Emory University in 1930, earned his master's degree at Columbia University in 1932, and received his doctorate at the University of North ...
Woodward was born in 1908 in Vanndale, Arkansas, a town his ancestors had built and named after his mother's family. He was the only son of Hugh Alison, a school principal and Latin teacher, and Bessie Vann Woodward, a homemaker.
Yale University. Read In Memoriam in Perspectives, March 2000. 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.
