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Paul M. Gaston | |
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| Born | Paul Morton Gaston January 31, 1928 |
| Died | June 14, 2019 (aged 91) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Southwestern at Memphis Swarthmore College (BA) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (MA PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fletcher Melvin Green |
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Paul Morton Gaston (January 31, 1928 - June 14, 2019) was an American historian, EDIT civil rights activist and writer, who focused on the post-war American South and taught for forty years at the University of Virginia.
Early life and education[edit]
Paul M. Gaston was born and raised in Fairhope, Alabama, a Georgist "Single Tax" community founded in 1894 by his grandfather E. B. Gaston. From the age of two he attended the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education graduating high school in 1945. After high school he enlisted in the US Army and served eighteen months in South Korea.
After the army he enrolled at Southwestern at Memphis college (now Rhodes College). He transferred to Swarthmore College the following year and graduated in 1952 with a BA in history and minors in economics and political science. After graduating Swarthmore he was awarded a Fulbright to study in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he wrote about Georgism and land value taxation in Denmark.
He returned to the U.S. in 1953 and began his doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied under Fletcher Melvin Green and wrote a dissertation on the New South movement. He was hired to teach American history by the University of Virginia in 1957 and taught there until his retirement in 1997. Placeholder...
Career[edit]
Civil Right's Activism (The "Buddy's" Incident)[edit]
The New South Creed[edit]
Gaston's most influential book was The New South Creed (1970) ...
The Southern Regional Council[edit]
Fairhope Research[edit]
South Africa[edit]
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Death and legacy[edit]
Paul M. Gaston died in Charlottesville, Virginia on June 14, 2019 at the age of 91.[1]
Works[edit]
Books[edit]
- The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (1970)
- Women of Fair Hope (1984)
- Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony (1993)
- Coming of Age in Utopia (2009)
- C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics (2012)
- Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney (2013)
- Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent (2017)
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