Chase C. Mooney
Chase C. Mooney | |
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| Born | September 30, 1913 Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 1973 (aged 59) Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, college professor |
Chase Curran Mooney (September 30, 1913 – April 29, 1973) was a Guggenheim Fellowship[1] and Rosenwald Fund Fellowship[2]-winning American historian. He specialized in the history of the 19th-century United States.[3]
Biography
[edit]Born into a family of teachers,[2] he attended Vanderbilt University from undergrad through his Ph.D.[3] During the window between 1939 and 1945, he worked for a time alongside Harriett Owsley and Blanche Henry Clark on what were known as the Owsley charts, "a composite of Schedules I (land ownership), H (slave ownership), and IV (products of agriculture) of the unpublished Federal Census for Tennessee, 1850 and 1860."[4] Mooney served in the U.S. Army during World War II, working as a senior historian.[3]
His 1957 Slavery in Tennessee was praised at the time of publication as the most complete and definitive work on the topic to that time;[5] the book was reprinted by Negro Universities Press in 1971.[6] He was an associate editor of the Journal of American History from 1963 to 1966.[3]
Mooney's posthumously published biography of William H. Crawford was described as "more than just another rehash of a life...It is consummately a biography of one of Georgia's great men...it is a fine example of historiography brilliantly and sparsely written. Third, it is a source work about a little-known man caught up in commonly known times and places."[7] A native of Tennessee,[5] Mooney taught at Indiana University for most of his career.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Chase C. Mooney". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ a b "Brentwood Man Wins Fellowship". The Tennessean. 1938-04-29. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ a b c d e "The Indianapolis News 30 Apr 1973, page 15". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ Hariett Chappel Owsley Collection, MSS.0321. Vanderbilt University Special Collections. http://localhost:9081/repositories/2/resources/1257 Accessed October 30, 2024.
- ^ a b "Slavery in Tennessee Definitely Probed". The Tennessean. 1957-09-29. p. 63. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ Mooney, Chase C. (1971). Slavery in Tennessee. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press. ISBN 978-0-8371-5522-7.
- ^ "Crawford's Letters Reveal Great Life". The Columbus Ledger. 1975-04-27. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
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