C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) is known as one of the most influential historians of the postwar era.  He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Mary Chesnut's Civil War, an edited version of Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary, and the Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South.  In 1974, the House Committee on the Judiciary asked Woodward for a historical study of misconduct in previous administrations and how the Presidents responded, resulting in his work Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct.  Woodward taught at Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities.