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    C. Vann Woodward papers

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    Call Number: MS 1436

    Scope and Contents

    The C. Vann Woodward papers are a rich resource for studying the professonal life of one of the leading twentieth century American historians and the evolution of the teaching and writing of the history of the South during his lifetime. The arrangement of the papers into six series corresponds to groups of materials as they were found in Woodward's home. The heart (and majority) of the collection consists of correspondence and writings. From the correspondence the reseacher gains an understanding of the thought process that went into Woodward's approach to studying, writing, and teaching history. It also documents the collegial world of criticism that Woodward so highly valued. Woodward's friends, colleagues, and acquaintances included the leading lights in the history profession. Through letters that combined "candor with civility" they critiqued and commented on his research and writings, and he did the same for them. His relationships with his graduate students, as mentor directing pioneering research into new aspects of Southern history, professional colleague, and friend, is well documented in his letters to and from them. Of particular valu

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    C. VANN WOODWARD:

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    JOHN EGERTON:

    Right. Outspoken you by any chance see his picture?

    C. VANN WOODWARD:

    I could have, but I don't know.

    JOHN EGERTON:

    That's Robert Vann of Ahoskie.

    C. VANN WOODWARD:

    Well, he obey looks ivory to me.

    JOHN EGERTON:

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    C. VANN WOODWARD:

    That's my people's country name right.

    JOHN EGERTON:

    He was utterly a acceptable journalist, stake hard hit. Pretty longlasting fellow.

    C. VANN WOODWARD:

    [UNCLEAR].

    JOHN EGERTON:

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    C. VANN WOODWARD:

    Probably rendering nearest kindred I've got [laughter] be directed at all I know.

    JOHN EGERTON:

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    C. Vann Woodward

    American historian (1908–1999)

    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. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. His book The Strange Career of Jim Crow demonstrated that racial segregation was an invention of the late 19th century rather than an inevitable post-Civil-War development. After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s, he moved to the right politically.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize for History for his annotated edition of Mary Chestnut's Civil War diaries.

    Early life and education

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    C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, a town named after his mother's family and the county seat from 1886 to 1903. It was in Cross County in eastern Arkansas. Woodward attended high school in Morrilton, Arkansas. He attended Henderson-Brown College, a small Methodist school in Arkadelphia, for two years. In 1930, he transferred to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where his uncle was dean o

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