C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

From the Review

June 10, 1999: Sticking to the Union (letter)

February 19, 1998: Dangerous Liaisons

White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Hodes

June 22, 1995: We Unhappy Few

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

December 1, 1994: 'Wallace Redeemed?': An Exchange

October 20, 1994: Wallace Redeemed?

George Wallace: American Populist by Stephan Lesher

April 7, 1994: The Inner Civil War

'…the real war will never get in the books': Selections from Writers During the Civil War edited by Louis P. Masur

The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home by Reid Mitchell

July 16, 1992: Made in the U.S.A.

Truman by David McCullough

December 5, 1991: The Return of LBJ

Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960 by Robert Dallek

The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years by Joseph A. Califano Jr.

September 26, 1991: 'Illiberal Education': An Exchange

July 18, 1991: Freedom & the Universities

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza

May 16, 1991: Religion and American Historians (letter)

February 14, 1991: In God We Trust

Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills

November 8, 1990: Civil Warriors

Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters edited by Mary Drake McFeely, edited by William S. McFeely

William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoirs edited by Charles Royster

June 14, 1990: Emerson and Racism (letter)

March 15, 1990: The Inner Civil War

Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes by Lewis P. Simpson

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South by Drew Gilpin Faust

February 15, 1990: Speaking Southern (letter)

December 21, 1989: Wheels (letter)

October 26, 1989: The Narcissistic South

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, edited by William Ferris

June 29, 1989: The Mississippi Horrors

Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen

December 22, 1988: The Election and the Future: A Symposium

December 8, 1988: The First Jewish Senator (letter)

December 8, 1988: Slaves and Mistresses

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

June 2, 1988: Comparative History (letter)

May 12, 1988: Unfinished Business

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 by Eric Foner

April 28, 1988: Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln'?: An Exchange

April 14, 1988: A Southern Romantic

Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate by Eli N. Evans

March 3, 1988: The Slave Revolts (letter)

November 19, 1987: The Lash and the Knout

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin

September 24, 1987: Gilding Lincoln's Lily

Freedom by William Safire

June 11, 1987: The New New South

Politics and Society in the South by Earl Black, by Merle Black

January 15, 1987: The Dreams of Martin Luther King

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow

December 4, 1986: The Academy of the Sixties (letter)

September 25, 1986: The Siege

No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities by Ellen W. Schrecker

July 17, 1986: Gone with the Wind

Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer, by Herman Hattaway, by Archer Jones, by William N. Still Jr.

January 30, 1986: The Lost Cause

Socialism and America by Irving Howe

October 10, 1985: District of Devils

In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina by Orville Vernon Burton

February 14, 1985: The Free 'Brown' Slaveholders

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South by Michael P. Johnson, by James L. Roark

No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War edited by Michael P. Johnson, edited by James L. Roark

December 8, 1983: The Not-So-New Deal

Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR by Nancy J. Weiss

March 3, 1983: Southern Exposure

The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 by Daniel Joseph Singal

November 18, 1982: The Primal Code

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

September 23, 1982: Pennies from Heaven

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and The Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

May 27, 1982: Mysteries in History

After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson, by Mark Hamilton Lytle

October 22, 1981: Good Housekeeping

The Hammonds of Redcliffe edited by Carol Bleser

June 11, 1981: Spaghetti West

Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century by Ray Allen Billington

March 19, 1981: The Enigma of U.S. Grant

Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely

March 5, 1981: 'Herrenvolk Democracy'

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History by George M. Fredrickson

November 20, 1980: Birth of a Nation

Retreat From Reconstruction, 1869-1879 by William Gillette

Reconstruction and Redemption in the South edited by Otto H. Olsen

September 25, 1980: The Cult of the Lost Cause

The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp

April 3, 1980: The Best?

The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control by Clark R. Mollenhoff

Jimmy Carter: A Character Portrait by Bruce Mazlish, by Edwin Diamond

February 7, 1980: The Right Eagle (letter)

February 7, 1980: America the Bad? (letter)

December 20, 1979: Playing Hooky

America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century by Frances FitzGerald

November 22, 1979: America the Bad?

Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Ronald T. Takaki

August 16, 1979: Not So Freed Men

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack

April 5, 1979: Home-grown Radicals

The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism by David DeLeon

Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 by James R. Green

December 7, 1978: A Dredful Decision

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher

October 28, 1976: The Promise of Populism

Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America by Lawrence Goodwyn

March 6, 1975: The Great American Butchery

The Civil War: A Narrative Vol. 3, Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote

October 3, 1974: Seeing Slavery Whole

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese

June 13, 1974: Fair Play for Olmsted (letter)

May 2, 1974: The Jolly Institution

Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel, by Stanley L. Engerman

Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods—A Supplement by Robert William Fogel, by Stanley L. Engerman

February 21, 1974: Gone With the Wind

The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War by Daniel Aaron

December 14, 1972: The Chaotic Politics of the South

The Changing Politics of the South edited by William C. Havard

Biracial Politics: Conflict and Coalition in the Metropolitan South by Chandler Davidson

Let the Glory Out: My South and Its Politics by Albert Gore

August 12, 1971: Our Own Herrenvolk

The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 by George M. Fredrickson

In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History by Eugene D. Genovese

December 3, 1970: Richard Hofstadter, 1916–1970

December 4, 1969: W.J. Cash Reconsidered

February 27, 1969: White Racism and Black "Emancipation"

Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850 by Eileen S. Kraditor

The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy by Eugene H. Berwanger

Powder Keg: Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831-1840 by Lorman Ratner

Free But Not Equal: The Midwest and the Negro During the Civil War by V. Jacque Voegeli

Black Scare: The Racist Response to Emancipation and Reconstruction by Forrest G. Wood

Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen by William S. McFeely

August 1, 1968: Wild in the Stacks

Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History edited by Barton J. Bernstein

August 20, 1964: A Southern Conscience

Mississippi: The Closed Society by James W. Silver

December 26, 1963: The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After

June 1, 1963: Letter (letter)

Books by C. Vann Woodward

Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1991)
The Old World's New World (1991)
The Future of the Past (1989)
Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History (1986)
The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1974)
Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct (1974)
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1971)
American Counterpoint: Slavery and Race in the North-South Dialogue (1971)
The Burden of Southern History (1968)
The Comparative Approach to American History (1968)
The Battle for Leyte Gulf (1947)
Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (1938)