Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)