Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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)







