Wood Gray

Wood Gray (March 19, 1905 - June 27, 1977) was an emeritus history professor at George Washington University, speaker, and author. He specialized in American social history and the history of the American Civil War.[1] He was a consultant for the United States Information Agency working on histories and motion pictures for overseas distribution.[1] He gave talks at the Foreign Service Institute and Industrial College.[1] The George Washington University Libraries have a collection of his papers.[1]

He was born in Petersburg, Illinois, and graduated from Petersburg Harris High School as valedictorian and captain of the track team. He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1927 and an M.A. in 1928. A student manager for the school's football team, he recounted taping Red Grange's ankles before the game against Michigan in which Grange scored five touchdowns. Gray earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1933.[1]

He began teaching history at George Washington University in 1934 and became department chair in 1937. He served in the Army Air Corps as a Special Staff Lt. Colonel from 1943 until 1946.[1]

In 1965 he was a member of NASA's historical advisory committee.[2]

He wrote about the Copperheads of the American Civil War era who he described as peace at any price Democrats.[3]

Personal life

He married Dorothea Leal Gray (died 1978) on August 13, 1927. He died in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography
  • Historian's Handbook: A Key to the Study and Writing of History[4] (1951) a textbook
  • The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads (1942)
  • Essays in American Historiography, co-authored with Marcus W. Jernegan of (1937)
  • The George Washington Key to Historical Research (1956) with William Columbus Davis et al.[5]

References
  1. https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/137
  2. Administration, United States National Aeronautics and Space. "Semiannual Report to the Congress: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting the Report". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  3. Rawley, James A. (June 8, 1977). "Lincoln and Civil War Politics". R. E. Krieger Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  4. Gray, Wood (June 8, 1959). "Historian's Handbook: A Key to the Study and Writing of History". Houghton Mifflin – via Google Books.
  5. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (June 8, 1957). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1956". Copyright Office, Library of Congress – via Google Books.
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