Clement Eaton

Clement Eaton (23 February 1898 in Winston-Salem, NC - 1980) was an U.S. historian who specialized in the American South.^[1]

He received his education from the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He was chair of the History Department at Lafayette College from 1931 to 1942 and then a faculty member of the University of Kentucky.^[1]

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
• The Growth of Southern Civilization, 1790-1860
• 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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Inventory of the Clement Eaton Recollections, 1976

External links

• Inventory of the Clement Eaton Recollections, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill