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C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.
Dangerous Liaisons
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Martha Hodes
February 19, 1998 issue
We Unhappy Few
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
June 22, 1995 issue
The Inner Civil War
' 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
April 7, 1994 issue
The Return of LBJ
Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960
by Robert Dallek
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years
by Joseph A. Califano Jr.
December 5, 1991 issue
Freedom & the Universities
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
by Dinesh D'Souza
July 18, 1991 issue
Civil Warriors
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
November 8, 1990 issue
The Inner Civil War
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
March 15, 1990 issue
The Narcissistic South
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, edited by William Ferris
October 26, 1989 issue
The Mississippi Horrors
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
by Neil R. McMillen
June 29, 1989 issue
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