Chase Curran Mooney (September 30, 1913 – April 29, 1973) was a

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and Rosenwald Fund Fellowship-winning American historian. He specialized in the history of the 19th-century United States.

Biography

Born into a family of teachers, he attended

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from undergrad through his Ph.D. 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charts, "a composite of Schedules I (land ownership), H (slave ownership), and IV (products of agriculture) of the unpublished Federal Census for Tennessee, 1850 and 1860." Mooney served in the U.S. Army during World War II, working as a senior historian. 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; the book was reprinted by

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in 1971. He was an associate editor of the ''

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'' from 1963 to 1966. Mooney's posthumously published biography of

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was described as "more than just another rehash of a life...It is consummately a biography of one of

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'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." A native of Tennessee, Mooney taught at

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for most of his career.

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Biography

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