Francis Butler Simkins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrancis Butler Simkins
American writer
Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1897
Place of Birth: Edgefield, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 08-Feb-1966
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Francis Butler Simkins
- Francis Butler Simkins (December 14, 1897 – February 8, 1966) was a historian and president of the Southern Historical Association.
- He is best known for his highly praised history of the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina, that gave fair coverage to all sides, and for his widely used textbook The South, Old and New (1947) and his monographs on South Carolina history.
- He was a colorful if eccentric professor at a small college in Virginia.
- He was a leading progressive in the 1920s and 1930s regarding race relations, but became more conservative in the 1950s and 1960s.
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