C. Vann Woodward
Historian of the American South and race relations.
C. Vann Woodward was a historian of the American South.[1] He died December 17, 1999, in Hamden, Connecticut, at the age of 91.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Comer Vann Woodward
- Born
- 13 November 1908
- Birthplace
- Vanndale, Arkansas, U.S.
- Died
- 17 December 1999
- Place of death
- Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
- Workplaces
- Yale University, Johns Hopkins University
- Education
- Emory University (BA)
- Columbia University (MA)
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD)
- Doctoral advisor
- Howard K. Beale
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Woodward's secondary education took place at a high school in Morrilton, Arkansas, and he then spent two years at Henderson-Brown College.[3] In 1930, Woodward moved to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, after transferring there.[3] From 1946 through 1961, Woodward was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.[4]
What the cited sources add
Woodward wrote in a 1975 essay that professional historians had abdicated their role as storytellers.[1] He cautioned that the term "amateur" has deprecatory connotations that can backfire when applied to nonprofessional historians.[1] Woodward's son, who died of cancer in 1969 at age 26, was named Peter Vincent Woodward.[5]
References
- C. Vann Woodward, "The Great American Butchery", New York Review of Books (March 6, 1975) online.. facts only, no text reused. nybooks.com
- Wikipedia, "C. Vann Woodward" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hackney, "C. Vann Woodward, 1908–1999: In Memoriam", Journal of Southern History, 2000, p. 207 220 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "C. Vann Woodward" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: John Herbert Roper, C. Vann Woodward: Southerner (1987) ch 1–2 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "C. Vann Woodward" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Roper, C. Vann Woodward (1987), pp. 134–135, 141. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Woodward, "In Memoriam: Pete Woodward", Yale University Class of 1964. facts only, no text reused. yale64.org
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