Frank Lawrence Owsley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrank Lawrence Owsley
American historian
Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1890
Place of Birth: Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 21-Oct-1955
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Frank Lawrence Owsley
- Frank Lawrence Owsley (January 20, 1890 – October 21, 1956) was an American historian who taught at Vanderbilt University for most of his career, where he specialized in southern history and was a member of the Southern Agrarians.
- He is notorious for his essay "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1930) in which he lamented the economic loss of slavery for the defeated Confederacy and of the "half savage blacks" that had been freed.
- He is also known for his study of Confederate diplomacy based on the idea of "King Cotton" and especially his quantitative social history of the middling "plain people" of the Old South.
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