Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
C. Vann Woodward
Born: November 13, 1908
Died: December 17, 1999 (aged 91)
Bio: Comer Vann Woodward was an American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Known for:
- The strange career of Jim Crow (1955)
- Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951)
- Tom Watson (1938)
- The burden of southern history (1960)
- Reunion and reaction (1951)







