name: Frank E. Vandiver
birth_date: 1925-12-09 00:00:00
death_date: 2005-01-07 00:00:00
genres: Biography, History
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about: Frank Everson Vandiver was an American Civil War historian and former president of Texas A&amp;M University and the University of North Texas, as well as acting president of Rice University. Vandiver wrote, co-wrote, or edited 24 books, and wrote an additional 100 scholarly articles or reviews.