Willard B. Gatewood

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Willard Badgett Gatewood Jr. (February 23, 1931 - October 23, 2011) was a history professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas and an author.^[1]

Gatewood was born on a tobacco farm along Park Springs Road in Caswell County, North Carolina. He graduated from George Washington High School in Danville, Virginia.^[2] He studied at Duke University where he received his undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees.^[3]

He served as Chancellor of the University of Arkansas in 1984 and 1985. He helped establish the University of Arkansas Press.^[4] He served as president of the Southern Historical Association.^[3]

The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in Louisiana has a few of his papers.^[5] The Southern Elite and Social Change; Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. was published in 2002.