C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward
Born	Comer Vann Woodward (1908-11-13)November 13, 1908 Vanndale, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	December 17, 1999(1999-12-17) (aged 91) Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Emory University (BA) Columbia University (MA) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD)
Awards	Bancroft Prize (1952) Pulitzer Prize for History (1982)
Scientific career
Institutions	Yale University Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisor	Howard K. Beale
Doctoral students	John W. Blassingame
Other notable students	Barbara J. Fields Sheldon Hackney Steven Hahn Richard J. Jensen James M. McPherson Edward L. Ayers

Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics.

Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. His book The Strange Career of Jim Crow demonstrated that racial segregation was an invention of the late 19th century rather than an inevitable post-Civil-War development. After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s, he moved to the right politically.^[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize for History for his annotated edition of Mary Chestnut's Civil War diaries.