C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.
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Sticking to the Union
June 10, 1999
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Dangerous Liaisons
February 19, 1998
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Hodes
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We Unhappy Few
June 22, 1995
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
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‘Wallace Redeemed?’: An Exchange
December 1, 1994
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Wallace Redeemed?
October 20, 1994
George Wallace: American Populist by Stephan Lesher
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The Inner Civil War
April 7, 1994
‘ 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
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Made in the U.S.A.
July 16, 1992
Truman by David McCullough
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The Return of LBJ
December 5, 1991
Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 19081960 by Robert Dallek
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years by Joseph A. Califano Jr.
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‘Illiberal Education’: An Exchange
September 26, 1991
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Freedom & the Universities
July 18, 1991
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza
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Religion and American Historians
May 16, 1991
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In God We Trust
February 14, 1991
Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills
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Civil Warriors
November 8, 1990
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
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Emerson and Racism
June 14, 1990
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The Inner Civil War
March 15, 1990
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
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Speaking Southern
February 15, 1990
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Wheels
December 21, 1989
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The Narcissistic South
October 26, 1989
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, edited by William Ferris
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The Mississippi Horrors
June 29, 1989
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
by Neil R. McMillen
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The Election and the Future: A Symposium
December 22, 1988
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The First Jewish Senator
December 8, 1988
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Slaves and Mistresses
December 8, 1988
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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Comparative History
June 2, 1988
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Unfinished Business
May 12, 1988
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 18631877 by Eric Foner
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Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’?: An Exchange
April 28, 1988
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A Southern Romantic
April 14, 1988
Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate by Eli N. Evans
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The Slave Revolts
March 3, 1988
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The Lash and the Knout
November 19, 1987
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
by Peter Kolchin
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Gilding Lincoln’s Lily
September 24, 1987
Freedom by William Safire
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The New New South
June 11, 1987
Politics and Society in the South by Earl Black, by Merle Black
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The Dreams of Martin Luther King
January 15, 1987
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
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The Academy of the Sixties
December 4, 1986
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The Siege
September 25, 1986
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities by Ellen W. Schrecker
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Gone with the Wind
July 17, 1986
Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer, by Herman Hattaway, by Archer Jones, by William N. Still Jr.
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The Lost Cause
January 30, 1986
Socialism and America by Irving Howe
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District of Devils
October 10, 1985
In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
by Orville Vernon Burton
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The Free ‘Brown’ Slaveholders
February 14, 1985
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
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The Not-So-New Deal
December 8, 1983
Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR by Nancy J. Weiss
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Southern Exposure
March 3, 1983
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 by Daniel Joseph Singal
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The Primal Code
November 18, 1982
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Pennies from Heaven
September 23, 1982
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and The Great Depression by Alan Brinkley
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Mysteries in History
May 27, 1982
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson, by Mark Hamilton Lytle
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Good Housekeeping
October 22, 1981
The Hammonds of Redcliffe
edited by Carol Bleser
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Spaghetti West
June 11, 1981
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century by Ray Allen Billington
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The Enigma of U.S. Grant
March 19, 1981
Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
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‘Herrenvolk Democracy’
March 5, 1981
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History
by George M. Fredrickson
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Birth of a Nation
November 20, 1980
Retreat From Reconstruction, 1869-1879 by William Gillette
Reconstruction and Redemption in the South edited by Otto H. Olsen
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The Cult of the Lost Cause
September 25, 1980
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War
by Kenneth M. Stampp
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The Best?
April 3, 1980
The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control by Clark R. Mollenhoff
Jimmy Carter: A Character Portrait by Bruce Mazlish, by Edwin Diamond
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The Right Eagle
February 7, 1980
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America the Bad?
February 7, 1980
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Playing Hooky
December 20, 1979
America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century by Frances FitzGerald
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America the Bad?
November 22, 1979
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Ronald T. Takaki
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Not So Freed Men
August 16, 1979
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
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Home-grown Radicals
April 5, 1979
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
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A Dredful Decision
December 7, 1978
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
by Don E. Fehrenbacher
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The Promise of Populism
October 28, 1976
Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America by Lawrence Goodwyn
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The Great American Butchery
March 6, 1975
The Civil War: A Narrative Vol. 3, Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
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Seeing Slavery Whole
October 3, 1974
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
by Eugene D. Genovese
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Fair Play for Olmsted
June 13, 1974
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The Jolly Institution
May 2, 1974
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel, by Stanley L. Engerman
Time on the Cross: Evidence and MethodsA Supplement by Robert William Fogel, by Stanley L. Engerman
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Gone With the Wind
February 21, 1974
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War by Daniel Aaron
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The Chaotic Politics of the South
December 14, 1972
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
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Our Own Herrenvolk
August 12, 1971
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
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Richard Hofstadter, 1916–1970
December 3, 1970
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W.J. Cash Reconsidered
December 4, 1969
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White Racism and Black “Emancipation”
February 27, 1969
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
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Wild in the Stacks
August 1, 1968
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History edited by Barton J. Bernstein
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A Southern Conscience
August 20, 1964
Mississippi: The Closed Society by James W. Silver
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The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
December 26, 1963
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Letter
June 1, 1963