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Gatewood, Willard Badgett was born on February 23, 1931 in Pelham, North Carolina, United States. Son of Willard Badgett and Bessie Lee (Pryor) Gatewood.
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years
(Dust jacket notes: "Henry Adams once remarked that Theodo...)
Dust jacket notes: "Henry Adams once remarked that Theodore Roosevelt thrived on 'at least one fight a week' during his presidency. Roosevelt's talent for endowing the commonplace with moral conviction and bellicose emotion could transform a relatively minor incident into a controversy that in time became a cause celebre. These essays examine seven disputes which roosevelt created, fell into, or searched out during his years in the White House (1901-1909). Professor Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., surveys the opinions of contemporary Roosevelt-watchers and of historicans, and closely examines the President's celebrated combativeness. Three of the essays deal with Roosevelt's encounters with the so-called Negro problem; his dinner with Booker T. Washington in the White House; his closing of the Indianola, Mississippi, post office when the townspeople intimidated its Negro postmistress; and his appointment of a Negro as customs collector in Charleston, South Carolina. Another essay reveals Roosevelt's response to organized labor in government employment. Controversies over church-state relations are explored in two amusing essays. One examines the President's troubles with Maria Longworth Storer, an American ambassador's wife, whose machinations in pursuit of the cardinal's hat for Archbishop John Ireland appear in retrospect more comic than serious. The other is an account of Roosevelt's attempt to provide the nation with an artistic coinage and the public agitation which greeted the removal of 'In God We Trust' from the new coins. The final essay describes the dispute over the Secret Service in 1908-1909 and analyzes the role Roosevelt played in forming the agency that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These controversies supplied popular entertainment but also touched sensitive areas of American life...."
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- Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920 (Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active b...)
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years by Willard B. Gatewood Jr. (1970-08-02)
- Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880?1920 (Black Community Studies) by Willard B. Gatewood (2000-05-01)
- Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880??920 (Black Community Studies) by Willard B. Gatewood (2000-05-01)
- "Smoked Yankees" and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902 (Called upon for the first time during the Spanish-America...)
Willard Badgett Gatewood
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Willard Badgett Gatewood, American Historian. Recipient Parks Excellence in Teaching award Phi Alpha Theta, 1970, Michael Research award, 1967; Outstanding Teaching award Omicron Delta Kappa, 1979, research award University Arkansas Alumni Association, 1980, Gingles award Ark.Hist. Association, 1982, Chancellor's medal, 1994, Ledbetter prize, 1994; Truman Library. fellow, 1963; Academy Arts and Sciences grantee, 1962.
Education
Bachelor, Duke U., 1953; Master of Arts, Duke U., 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Duke U., 1957.
Career
Assistant professor of history, East Tennessee State University, 1957-1958; Assistant professor of history, East Carolina U., 1958-1960; associate professor, North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1960-1964; professor, U. Georgia, 1964-1970; Alumni Distinguished professor of history, U. Arkansas, 1970-1998; retired, U. Arkansas, 1998; provost and chancellor, U. Arkansas, 1984-1985.
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"Smoked Yankees" and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902
( Called upon for the first time during the Spanish-Ameri...)
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Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920
( Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active...)
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years
(Dust jacket notes: "Henry Adams once remarked that Theodo...)
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years by Willard B. Gatewood Jr. (1970-08-02)
- Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880?1920 (Black Community Studies) by Willard B. Gatewood (2000-05-01)
- Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880??920 (Black Community Studies) by Willard B. Gatewood (2000-05-01)
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"Smoked Yankees" and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902
Membership
Board of directors Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, 1990-1996. Member Southern History Association (president 1986-1987), Arkansas History Association, Organisation American Historians, Association Study Afro-American Life and History, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Mary Lu Brown, August 9, 1958. Children: Willard Badgett III, Elizabeth Ellis.
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Presbyterian
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Recipient Parks Excellence in Teaching award Phi Alpha Theta, 1970, Michael Research award, 1967. Outstanding Teaching award Omicron Delta Kappa, 1979, research award University Arkansas Alumni Association, 1980, Gingles award Ark.Hist. Association, 1982, Chancellor's medal, 1994, Ledbetter prize, 1994. Truman Library. fellow, 1963. Academy Arts and Sciences grantee, 1962.Recipient Parks Excellence in Teaching award Phi Alpha Theta, 1970, Michael Research award, 1967. Outstanding Teaching award Omicron Delta Kappa, 1979, research award University Arkansas Alumni Association, 1980, Gingles award Ark.Hist. Association, 1982, Chancellor's medal, 1994, Ledbetter prize, 1994.
Truman Library. fellow, 1963. Academy Arts and Sciences grantee, 1962.