

C. Vann Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward 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.