George Brown Tindall (February 26, 1921 – December 2, 2006) was an American historian and author. A professor at the

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from 1958 until his retirement, Tindall was "one of the nation's pre-eminent historians of the modern

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." He served as president of the

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. He held a

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and was a

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, a visiting Member of the

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, and a Fellow of the

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. In 1969, Tindall's book ''The Emergence of the New South: 1913-1945'' was given the

Lillian Smith Book Award Jointly presented by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries, the ''Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their outstanding writing about the American South, carry on Lillian Smith's legacy of elu ...

Early life

Tindall grew up in

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, graduated from

Furman University Furman University is a private liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina. Founded in 1826 and named for the clergyman Richard Furman, Furman University is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It became ...

there, and then served in the Pacific theater in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Forces. After the war he received his Ph.D. from the

Personal life

He was married to Blossom McGarrity Tindall for 60 years. He was survived by her, his son Bruce Tindall, and his daughter

Blair Tindall Blair Tindall (born February 2, 1960) is an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist. Early life and education Tindall was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to historian George Brown Tindall and Blossom Tindall. She start ...

Works

*''South Carolina Negroes, 1877–1900'' (1952) *"The Benighted South: Origins of a Modern Image" (1964) *''A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist Leaders'' (1966) *''The Disruption of the Solid South'' (1972) *''The Persistent Tradition in New South Politics'' (1975) *''The Ethnic Southerners'' (1976) *''America: A Narrative History'' (1984) *''Natives & Newcomers: Ethnic Southerners and Southern Ethnics'' (1995)

References

External links

Publisher's website
( W. W. Norton & Company) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tindall, George 1921 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians of the Southern United States Historians of race relations University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty 20th-century American male writers United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II