Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann) 1908-1999

Overview

Works:	224 works in 1,031 publications in 4 languages and 43,170 library holdings
Genres:	History Biography Personal narratives‡vConfederate Sources Autobiographies Diaries Essays Controversial literature Records and correspondence
Roles:	Author, Editor, Thesis advisor, Author of introduction, Other, Originator

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about C. Vann Woodward

Thinking back : the perils of writing history by C. Vann Woodward( Book )
C. Vann Woodward, southerner by John Herbert Roper( Book )
The letters of C. Vann Woodward by C. Vann Woodward( )
Origins of the new South fifty years later : the continuing influence of a historical classic by Origins of the New South fifty years later: the continuing influence of a historical classic (Symposium)( Book )
C. Vann Woodward : a southern historian and his critics( Book )

Oral history interview with C. Vann Woodward, January 12, 1991 : interview A-0341, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) by C. Vann Woodward( )
C. Vann Woodward : American educator by Julia Ann Oxner Hall( )
Papers of the NAACP by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People( Book )
C. Vann Woodward by Kathleen Cummings( )
Richard Hofstadter papers by Richard Hofstadter( )
Walker Percy papers by Walker Percy( )
Alexander Rourke Butler papers by Alexander Rourke Butler( Book )
Oral history interview of Edward Younger( )
William Best Hesseltine papers by William B Hesseltine( )
by Lionel Trilling Seminars( )
Photographic portraits of Southern writers and artists by William R Ferris( Visual )
Robert Penn Warren papers by Robert Penn Warren( Visual )
Eric L. McKitrick papers by Eric L McKitrick( )
Robert Coles papers by Robert Coles( )
Correspondence files by William G Carleton( )

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Most widely held works by C. Vann Woodward

The burden of Southern history by C. Vann Woodward( )

89 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 6,033 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

C. Van Wood ward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of Southern identity, Southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience

The strange career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

129 editions published between 1955 and 2006 in English and Italian and held by 5,729 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book, referred to by Martin Luther King as "the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement," makes a compelling case that the Jim Crow system of racial legislation that dominated the South was not a natural outgrowth of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, or even Redemption, but rather a haphazard creation of Southern whites in the last decade of the nineteenth century

Reunion and reaction : the compromise of 1877 and the end of reconstruction by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

49 editions published between 1911 and 1991 in English and held by 3,786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1951, this historical textbook has been reissued with a new introduction by the author. It discusses the American Reconstruction period, the history of the US Republican Party and the realignment of forces that fought the American Civil War

Origins of the new South, 1877-1913 by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

93 editions published between 1951 and 2013 in English and Italian and held by 3,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reviews the economis, political, and social evolution of the Outh from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I

Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Boykin Chesnut( Book )

23 editions published between 1981 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy

The Comparative approach to American history by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

88 editions published between 1967 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 2,864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Twenty-three essays which explore a number of historical problems by comparing America's experiences with those of other countries

Tom Watson : agrarian rebel by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

64 editions published between 1938 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Farmer. He was elected to Congress in 1890, later became a Populist leader, and in 1904 and 1908 he ran for president on the Populist ticket." Book rev. digest

The Old World's new world by C. Vann Woodward( )

16 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in 3 languages and held by 1,607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For review see: K. van Berkel, in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, jrg. 106, no. 3 (1993); p. 449

The private Mary Chesnut : the unpublished Civil War diaries by Mary Boykin Chesnut( Book )

10 editions published in 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,500 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience

American counterpoint : slavery and racism in the North-South dialogue by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

16 editions published between 1971 and 1983 in English and held by 1,443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The future of the past by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

16 editions published between 1989 and 1991 in English and held by 1,111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discusses the relationships between the past and present and history and fiction, and looks at the role of the historian

Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh( )

23 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in English and held by 1,067 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Annotation Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only "the new fashionable name for slavery," though slavery was far more humane and responsible, "the best and most common form of socialism."His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. "Why all this," he asked, "except that free society is a failure?"The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, "a presumptuous charlatan," and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker

The battle for Leyte gulf by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

34 editions published between 1947 and 2017 in English and held by 921 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf?the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial Navy, including two powerful new battleships of the Yamato class. It also ended in their greatest defeat?and a tremendous victory for the United States Navy. Features a new introduction by Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder

Down the line : the collected writings of Bayard Rustin by Bayard Rustin( Book )

4 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 890 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Southern prophecy: The prosperity of the South dependent upon the elevation of the Negro (1889) by Lewis H Blair( Book )

5 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 808 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of the strongest arguments for civil rights ever written was first published in Richmond, Virginia, and 1889, and its Author was a Southern businessman a prominent family who had served in the confederate army. Lewis H. Blair's surprising book, The Prosperity of the South Dependent Upon the Elevation of the Negro is a historical gem which provides an unusual touchstone in the current civil rights the bait. It was rediscovered by Yale's Professor C. Vann Woodward, who has contributed notes, the introduction and an index for its reissue 75 years later as A Southern Prophecy. (Taken from back of the book.)

Region, race, and Reconstruction : essays in honor of C. Vann Woodward by J. Morgan Kousser( Book )

8 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 743 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After the war: a tour of the Southern States, 1865-1866 by Whitelaw Reid( Book )

8 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 668 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Responses of the Presidents to charges of misconduct by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

12 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A study undertaken for the Impeachment Inquiry Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary, with an added introd

The age of reinterpretation by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

14 editions published between 1960 and 1968 in English and Spanish and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff( Book )

5 editions published between 1982 and 1985 in English and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known

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