George Brown Tindall (February 26, 1921 – December 2, 2006) was an American historian and author.
A professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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from 1958 until his retirement, Tindall was "one of the nation's pre-eminent historians of the modern
South
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Etymology
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."
He served as president of the
Southern Historical Association. He held a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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and was a
Fulbright Scholar
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, a visiting Member of the
Institute for Advanced Study
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, and a Fellow of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 1969, Tindall's book ''The Emergence of the New South: 1913-1945'' was given the
Lillian Smith Book Award
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.
Early life
Tindall grew up in
Greenville, South Carolina
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, graduated from
Furman University
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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
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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.
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)
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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