Willard Badgett Gatewood Jr. (February 23, 1931 - October 23, 2011) was a history professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas and an author.[1]
Gatewood was born on a tobacco farm along Park Springs Road in Caswell County, North Carolina. He graduated from George Washington High School in Danville, Virginia.[2] He studied at Duke University where he received his undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees.[3]
He served as Chancellor of the University of Arkansas in 1984 and 1985. He helped establish the University of Arkansas Press.[4] He served as president of the Southern Historical Association.[3]
The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in Louisiana has a few of his papers.[5] The Southern Elite and Social Change; Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. was published in 2002.
Written works edit
- Slave And Freeman; The Autobiography of George L. Knox, editor (2014)
- Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920"
- Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox
- "The Remarkable Misses Rollin: Black Women in Reconstruction South Carolina", South Carolina Historical Magazine Vol. 92, No. 3 (July 1991), pages 172-188 South Carolina Historical Society
- Black Americans and the White Man's Burden 1898–1903, University of Illinois Press (1975)
- "Smoked Yankees" and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898–1902 (1971)[6]
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy; Episodes of the White House Years (1970)[7]
- America Interpreted: A Concise History with Interpretive Readings, co-author
- "The Rediscovery of Local History" (1975)[8]
- Controversy in the Twenties; Fundamentalism, Modernism, and Evolution Vanderbilt University Press 1969
- From Slavery to Wealth, The Lifeof Acott Bond, editor
- "The South, the State University and the Regional Promise" (1977)[9]
- Woodrow Wilson and the University of Arkansas Argus Printers (1971)[10]
References edit
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
- ^ Turner, Katie. "Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. (1931-2011) – The Historical Society of North Carolina".
- ^ a b "Obituary for Willard B. Gatewood, Jr, Fayetteville, AR". www.nwaonline.com.
- ^ "Willard Gatewood | The Office of the Chancellor | University of Arkansas". chancellor.uark.edu.
- ^ https://amistad-finding-aids.tulane.edu/agents/people/648
- ^ Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902. Books on Demand. 1981.
- ^ Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy; Episodes of the White House Years. Louisiana State University Press. 1970. ISBN 9780807104309.
- ^ Gatewood, Willard (January 1, 1975). "The Rediscovery of Local History". Georgia Archive. 3 (2).
- ^ Gatewood, Willard B. (1977). The South, the State University and the Regional Promise.
- ^ Woodrow Wilson and the University of Arkansas. Argus Printers. 1971.