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

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 813 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 740 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 672 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

11 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

15 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in 3 languages and held by 640 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

34 editions published between 1947 and 2017 in English and held by 633 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

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

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

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

23 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in English and held by 89 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

Thinking back : the perils of writing history by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

6 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines how viewpoints have changed on the history of the south and explains the reasons for a reinterpretation of Southern history

The letters of C. Vann Woodward by C. Vann Woodward( Book )

4 editions published between 2010 and 2015 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the 20th century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days at Yale when he became one of the arbiters of American intellectual culture. Presented here are his sprightly, wry, sympathetic, and often funny letters, including those he wrote to figures as diverse as John Kennedy, David Riesman, Richard Hofstadter, and Robert Penn Warren