C. Vann Woodward

C. VANN WOODWARD is an historian and essayist. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Mary Chestnut's Civil War. Other works include Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, American Counterpoint, Slavery in the North-South Dialogue, and The Burden of Southern History. He is the general editor of The Oxford History of the United States.