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In World War II he served on the historical staff of the Navy, writing battle syntheses of battle reports, including [[The Battle of Leyte Gulf]] (1947).  

In World War II he served on the historical staff of the Navy, writing battle syntheses of battle reports, including [[The Battle of Leyte Gulf]] (1947).  

Woodward taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1946 to 1961 and at Yale from 1961 to 1977. He received the Bancroft Prize for ''Origins of the New South, 1877-1913'' (1951), and the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for ''Mary Chesnut's Civil War'', a minor book but the Pulitzer committee had overlooked his major books. His great achievement was ''Origins of the New South'', which remains the most persuasive interpretation of the entire region.

After 1951 his best writing was in the form of essays.  

He made the greatest popular impact for ''The Strange Career of Jim Crow'' (1955), which demonstrated that segregation was neither inevitable nor wise, but a device used by white politicians for political ends.  The strong implication was that it could be reversed by politicians seeking higher ends. [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] called the book "the historical bible of the civil rights movement."  

He made the greatest popular impact for ''The Strange Career of Jim Crow'' (1955), which demonstrated that segregation was neither inevitable nor wise, but a device used by white politicians for political ends.  The strong implication was that it could be reversed by politicians seeking higher ends. [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] called the book "the historical bible of the civil rights movement."  

Woodward was president of the Southern Historical Association, 1952; president of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Historical Association, 1968-1969; and president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987-1988. He received numerous honorary degrees. However by the late 1960s radical historians were attacking his kind of liberalism, and even denouncing him at scholarly meetings.  Angry at their bad behavior and weak scholarship, he turned increasingly to the right, finding more and more wisdom in the works of conservative authors like [[William Faulkner]] and conservative historians like his friend [[David Potter]].  

Woodward was president of the Southern Historical Association, 1952; president of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Historical Association, 1968-1969; and president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987-1988. He received numerous honorary degrees. However by the late 1960s radical historians were attacking his kind of liberalism, and even denouncing him at scholarly meetings.  Angry at their bad behavior and weak scholarship, he turned increasingly to the right, finding more and more wisdom in the works of conservative authors like [[William Faulkner]] and conservative historians like his friend [[David Potter]].