C. Vann Woodward
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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)