Willard B. Gatewood Explained

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

• 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
2. Web site: Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. (1931-2011) – The Historical Society of North Carolina. Katie. Turner.
3. Web site: Obituary for Willard B. Gatewood, Jr, Fayetteville, AR. www.nwaonline.com.
4. Web site: Willard Gatewood | The Office of the Chancellor | University of Arkansas. chancellor.uark.edu.
5. https://amistad-finding-aids.tulane.edu/agents/people/648
6. Book: Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902. 1981. Books on Demand.
7. Book: Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy; Episodes of the White House Years. 9780807104309. 1970. Louisiana State University Press.
8. The Rediscovery of Local History. Willard. Gatewood. January 1, 1975. Georgia Archive. 3. 2.
9. Book: The South, the State University and the Regional Promise. 1977. Gatewood . Willard B. .
10. Book: Woodrow Wilson and the University of Arkansas. 1971. Argus Printers.