{"id":2272,"date":"2014-05-14T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2014-05-14T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T20:57:02","slug":"weaver-herbert-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"WEAVER, HERBERT, 1905-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; college professor. Born, July 28, 1905, in Brewton, Ala. Parents&#8211; Levi P. and Anna (Holladay) Weaver. Married&#8211; Blanche Henry Clark, March 5, 1944. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1926; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1935, Ph.D., 1941. Taught in Alabama secondary schools, 1926-1935; Georgia Teachers College (now Georgia Southern College), Statesboro, 1940-1942 and 1946-1949; professor of\u00a0history at Vanderbilt University, 1949-; chairman, History Dept., 1962. U.S. Air Force, 1942-1946. Member&#8211; Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Tennessee Historical Society, Kappa Phi Kappa; editorial board, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 1948-1952; Journal of Southern History, 1957-1959. Received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Distinguished Service by a Faculty Member at Vanderbilt, 1973. Awarded status of professor emeritus on his retirement.\u00a0 Died February 5, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Farmers, 1850-1860. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Correspondence of James K. Polk. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of the United States Air Force in World War II. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1948-1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; college professor. Born, July 28, 1905, in Brewton, Ala. Parents&#8211; Levi P. and Anna (Holladay) Weaver. Married&#8211; Blanche Henry Clark, March 5, 1944. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1926; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1935, Ph.D., 1941. Taught in Alabama secondary schools, 1926-1935; Georgia Teachers College (now Georgia Southern College), Statesboro, 1940-1942 and 1946-1949; professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}