Arkansas-born C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999), Sterling Professor of History at Yale, was the author of The Burden of Southern History and of Origins of the New South, which won the Bancroft prize. His book The Strange Career of Jim Crow, published by the Oxford University Press in 1955 is an excellent study of the history of segregation.
Woodward is considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by the general public.
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