Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman (1823-1893) wrote the epic seven-volume study France and England in North America, which established him as one of the greatest historians of America.

C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) is noted for his influential histories of the South, among which Mary Chesnut’s Civil War won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. During his lifetime he was a distinguished professor at Yale University, the University of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins University.
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