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Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused 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. Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s.
Dec 19, 1999 · C. Vann Woodward, whose gifts of scholarship, storytelling and social conscience combined to produce some of the most readable and respected histories of the South, died on Friday at his home in...
Dec 1, 2000 · Free Online Library: C. VANN WOODWARD: NOVEMBER 13, 1908-DECEMBER 17, 1999.(Obituary) by "Civil War History"; African American authors Biography African American writers Authors, American Historians
Nov 29, 2001 · C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America’s most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut’s Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South.
Dec 27, 2020 · Perhaps the greatest of those was the late C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), professor at Johns Hopkins, and then Yale, whose most famous work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), was acknowledged by Martin Luther King Jr. to be “the historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement.”
C. Vann Woodward died on December 17, 1999, just a month after his ninety-first birthday. I heard the news from Sheldon Hackney, his friend and former student. “Vann died peacefully at his house in Hamden [Connecticut] late this afternoon,” Sheldon’s e-mail message said.
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With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, his work captivated both academic and public audiences.
