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)
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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
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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
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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