Clement Eaton (23 February 1898 in

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– 12 August 1980) was an American

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who specialized in the

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.Inventory of the Clement Eaton Recollections, 1976
/ref> He received his education from the

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, where he was president of

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, and graduated in 1919. He also attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He was chair of the History Department at

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

from 1931 to 1942 and then a faculty member of the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

Selected writings

*''History of the Old South: The Emergence of a Reluctant Nation'' *''A History of the Southern Confederacy'' *''The Freedom-of-Thought Struggle in the Old South'' (1940) *''The Growth of Southern Civilization, 1790-1860'' (1961) *''Mind of the Old South'' *''Henry Clay and the Art of American Politics'' *''The Waning of the Old South Civilization 1860-1880, Univ. of Geo press, 1969''

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Inventory of the Clement Eaton Recollections
in the

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, UNC-Chapel Hill 1898 births 1980 deaths University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Harvard University alumni University of Kentucky faculty 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Writers from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Lafayette College faculty 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub

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