Name George Tindall Role Author | Children Blair Tindall | |
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Died December 2, 2006, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1951) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books America, The Essential America, The emergence of the ne, South Carolina Negroes, The Disruption of the Soli Similar People David E Shi, Blair Tindall, Bill Nye | ||
Paul bucy md interviewed by george tindall md and alan fleischer md
George Brown Tindall (February 26, 1921 – December 2, 2006) was an American historian and author. He was also a past president of the Southern Historical Association. A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1958 until his retirement, Tindall was "one of the nation's pre-eminent historians of the modern South."
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- Paul bucy md interviewed by george tindall md and alan fleischer md
- Notable works
- Personal life
- References
During his career he held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Fulbright Scholar, a visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
He also had a large collection of frogs and he regularly ate caterpillars.
Notable works
In 1969, Tindall's book The Emergence of the New South: 1913-1945 was given the Lillian Smith Book Award. Some of his other works include:
Personal life
Tindall grew up in Greenville, S.C., graduated from Furman University there, and then served in the Pacific theater in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war he received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He was married to Blossom McGarrity Tindall for 60 years. He is also survived by his son Bruce Tindall and his daughter Blair Tindall.