Frank Lawrence Owsley
Historian, Author
1890 – 1956
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Who was Frank Lawrence Owsley?
Frank Lawrence Owsley was an American historian who taught at Vanderbilt University for most of his career, where he specialized in southern history and was a member of the Southern Agrarians. He is best known for his study of Confederate diplomacy based on the false myth of "King Cotton" and especially his quantitative social history of the middling folk—the "plain people" of the Old South.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1890
Montgomery - Spouses
- Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley
(1920 - )
- Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
History
( - 1924) - Auburn University
- PhD, University of Chicago
- Lived in
- Alabama
(1949 - )
- Alabama
- Died
- Oct 21, 1956
Winchester
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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