Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both among scholars and the general public. He was long an advocate of Beardianism, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. He was a master of irony and counterpoint. November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ... Race relations are relations between races, sometimes involving racism. ... Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was a noted American historian and was the Dewitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. ... Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. ... Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 _ September 1, 1948) was an American historian, author with James Harvey Robinson of The Development of Modern Europe (1907). ...

C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, a town named after his mother's family, in Cross County, Arkansas. Woodward attended high school in Morrilton, Arkansas. He attended Henderson-Brown College in Arkadelphia, Arkansas for two years. He transferred to Emory University in 1930 where he graduated. Cross County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. ... Morrilton is a city located in Conway County, Arkansas. ... The schools mascot is the Reddie. ... Downtown Arkadelphia Arkadelphia is a city located in Clark County, Arkansas. ... Emory University is a private university in Atlanta, Georgia and is one of the premier universities in the United States. ...

Woodward took graduate courses at Columbia University in 1931 where he met, and was influenced by, Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance movement. In 1932 he worked for the defense of Angelo Herndon, a young Communist Party member who had been accused of subversive activities. Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. ... Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. ...

He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, using as his dissertation the manuscript he had already finished on Tom Watson. In World War II he served on the historical staff of the Navy, writing battle reports, including The Battle of Leyte Gulf (1946) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... There are at least four notable people called Tom Watson Tom Watson, the golfer Tom Watson, manager of Liverpool F.C. from 1896 to 1915 Tom Watson, the British politician Thomas E. Watson, the American Populist leader This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages...

Woodward taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1946 to 1961 and at Yale from 1961 to 1967. He had many influential graduate students, but never founded a school. The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... Yale redirects here. ...

In 1974, the House Committee on the Judiciary asked Woodward for a historical study of misconduct in previous administrations and how the Presidents responded. Woodward led a group of fourteen historians and they produced a thorough 400 page report in less than 4 months, Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Woodward won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Mary Chesnut's Civil War, an edited version of Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary. He won the Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Martin Luther King, Jr. called The Strange Career of Jim Crow "the historical bible of the civil rights movement." The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Mary Chesnut (1823-1886) lived in Charleston, South Carolina, and is famous for keeping an extremely detailed diary describing the American Civil War. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft and is awarded by Columbia University for books about diplomacy or about the history of the Americas which were first published the year before. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ...

C. Vann Woodward died in Hamden, Connecticut. Hamden is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut. ...

The Southern Historical Association has established the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize awarded annually to the best dissertation on southern history.

Major books by C. Vann Woodward

• Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (1938)
• Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (1951) online edition at ACLS History ebooks
• Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951)
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) online edition at ACLS History ebooks
• The Age of Reinterpretation (1961) pamphlet
• The Burden of Southern History online at ACLS History e-books
• The Battle of Leyte Gulf (1965)
• The Comparative Approach to American History (1968) editor
• American Counterpoint (1971), essays
• Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1981) editor; Pulitzer prize
• The Oxford History of the United States (1982–99), series editor
• The Private Mary Chestnut (1984)

About Woodward

• John Herbert Roper, C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics (1997)
• J. Morgan Kousser and James McPherson, eds. Religion, Race and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (2005)

External link

• Woodward Papers at Yale with short biography