C. Vann Woodward

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C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.

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instanceOf academic
historian
person
awardReceived Bancroft Prize
Francis Parkman Prize
Pulitzer Prize for History
birthDate 1908-11-13
birthPlace Vanndale, Arkansas, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1999-12-17
educatedAt Columbia University
Emory University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
employer Emory University
Johns Hopkins University
Yale University
familyName Woodward
fieldOfWork United States history
history of the American South
race relations in the United States
fullName C. Vann Woodward self-linksurface differs
surface form: Comer Vann Woodward
genre nonfiction
givenName Comer
influenced historiography of the American South
scholarship on Jim Crow laws
influencedBy Charles A. Beard
W. E. B. Du Bois
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
movement revisionist historiography of the American South
notableIdea emphasis on discontinuity and change in Southern history
interpretation of Jim Crow as a relatively late and contingent system
notableWork Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
occupation historian
university professor
placeOfDeath New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
positionHeld Sterling Professor of History at Yale University
president of the American Historical Association
wroteAbout Populism in the American South
Reconstruction era
surface form: Reconstruction era in the United States

race relations in the 19th and 20th century American South
segregation in the United States

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Pulitzer Prize for History notableWinner C. Vann Woodward
Pulitzer Prize for History notableWinner C. Vann Woodward
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Woodward hasNotableBearer C. Vann Woodward
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this entity surface form: Comer Vann Woodward
James M. McPherson academicAdvisor C. Vann Woodward