Some of these were not young college students, for Shanks directed many night study groups, especially in Civil War history. "Modest but strongly principled, genial but exacting in standards," scholarly and dedicated, Shanks inspired students to strive to attain his level of academic quality. In 1958 he retired as dean at Birmingham-Southern and returned to full-time teaching as head of the Department of History. In the summer of 19 he taught at West Virginia University, and in the summers of 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1939 he taught at Emory University. In 1930 he joined the faculty of Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama, where he taught history for thirty years, fifteen of which he held the position of dean. From 1923 to 1929 he was an instructor in history at The University of North Carolina he also taught at East Carolina Teachers' College (summer 1923) and Wake Forest College (summer 1927). Shanks began his teaching career at South Georgia State Woman's College, Valdosta, where he was professor of history and political science from 1920 to 1922. from The University of North Carolina in 1929. Dodd, earned a master of arts degree in history in 1923. After attending Columbia University in the summer of 1921, he entered the University of Chicago and, working under William E. ![]() During World War I (1917–18) he served in the U.S. ![]() He was educated at Buies Creek Academy and at Wake Forest College, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1918 and a master of arts degree in 1920. Henry Thomas Shanks, historian, author, and teacher, was born in Vance County, the son of Henry Taylor and Maude Jenkins Shanks.
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