C. Vann Woodward
Historian, Author
1908 – 1999
Who was C. Vann Woodward?
Comer Vann Woodward was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by the general public. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. Stylistically, he was a master of irony and counterpoint. Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s he moved to the right politically.
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- Born
- Nov 13, 1908
Vanndale - Also known as
- Comer Vann Woodward
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Emory University
- Columbia University
- Employment
- Yale University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lived in
- Arkansas
- Died
- Dec 17, 1999
Hamden
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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