Quote of the day
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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)