C. Vann Woodward (1908--1999) was Sterling
Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught
from 1961 until 1977. One of the leading historians of the century,
Woodward wrote several books about the American South, his main
field of interest. He edited Mary Chesnut's Civil War, for which he
received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for history. His other major works
include Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel; American Counterpoint; The
Strange Career of Jim Crow; Reunion and Reaction; Thinking Back:
The Perils of Writing History; and Origins of the New South,
1877--1913, for which he received the Bancroft Prize. He served as
president of the Southern Historical Association, the Organization
of American Historians, and the American Historical Association,
and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan,
Jr., Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and the author of more than a doezen books on
twentieth-century American history, including The White House Looks
South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson.
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