C. Vann Woodward is still one of the most famous historians known throughout the world. He was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, a little town about fifty miles Northwest of Little Rock. He found out that most of his ancestors had been slave owners in the past. Woodward enrolled at Emory College around 1930, and by the time he graduated, the depression had hit. This was a development that radicalized Woodward, like many other great American intellectuals. He began taking graduate courses at Columbia University in New York City in 1931. While in New York, he met Langston Hughes and other members of the Harlem Renaissance group.
Woodward wrote many great books. His very first, and perhaps most famous work was Tom Watson, Agarian Rebel in 1938. In it, he examined the life of the Georgia Populist whose career in some ways exemplified the political contradictions of the post-Civil War South. Watson began his life as a radical who vigorously attacked the moneyed interests. As late......
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