Comer Vann Woodward (born 1908), American historian, is one of the leading interpreters of southern history and race relations. Comer Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas in 1908. He graduated from Emory University in 1930, earned his master's...

C. Vann Woodward's active career, now spanning nearly forty-five years as a historian of the American South, is remarkable both for its impact and for its durability. Since the publication of his masterful Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, in 1951,...

C. Vann Woodward 1908-1999 Writing History with a Purpose C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor Emeritus, History at Yale University and the 1978 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, died December 23 at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. Woodward, whose writing shaped the...

C. Vann Woodward, 91, a Southerner by birth, upbringing and temperament who became a Yale University history professor and perhaps the nation's leading authority on the history and culture of the South, died Dec. 17 at his home in Hamden, Conn. He had a...

After 19 books and thousands of articles and other writings spanning 70-plus years, the question is how many undiscovered nuggets of insight researchers may yet find in the private papers of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Quite a few, according to the curator of manuscripts at the...