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Thomas Ernest "Tom" Woods, Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American Historian and author. Woods is a New York Times best-selling author and has published twelve books. He has written on the subjects of American history, traditional Catholicism and economics. Woods is sympathetic to Paleoconservatism and although not an economist himself a proponent of the Austrian_school of economics.

Education and affiliations
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Woods holds an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, both in History. He is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and a member of the editorial board for the Institute's Libertarian Papers.

Woods is a founding member of the League of the South, a Southern nationalist organization, and a contributing author to the League's journal, The Southern Patriot.

Woods is also an associate scholar of the Abbeville Institute, named after the South Carolina hometown of pro-slavery US Senator John Calhoun. The mission of the Abbeville Institute is to preserve and present what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition.

Woods was an ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellow in 1995–96. He received the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003.

He has additionally been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. His 2005 book, The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy, won the $50,000 first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.