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C. Vann Woodward

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Gender Male
Death24 years ago
Date of birth November 13,1908
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Vanndale
Arkansas
United States
Date of died December 17,1999
DiedHamden
Connecticut
United States
Job Professor
Writer
Historian
Awards Pulitzer Prize for History
Bancroft Prize
Jefferson Lecture
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for History
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Tom Watson
The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
Reunion and reaction
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The burden of southern history
The age of reinterpretation
The comparative approach to American history
American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North-South Dialogue
Thinking Back
The future of the past
The Old World's new world
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward
When Did Southern Segregation Begin?
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C. Vann Woodward Life story


Comer Vann Woodward was a Pulitzer-prize winning American historian focusing 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. Stylistically, he was a master of irony and counterpoint.

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