Sydnor, Charles S.

Charles S. Sydnor was ranked as one of his generation's leading southern historians, and in 1939 his peers elected him president of the Southern Historical Association. In 1950 - '51 Sydnor held the Harmsworth Lectureship in American History at Oxford University. Some of his publications include The Development of Southern Sectionalism, American Revolutionaries in the Making, and Gentleman Freeholders.