[3] Windrow authored a book about John Berrien Lindsley, an Antebellum educator who served as the chancellor of the University of Nashville.
In a review for The Journal of Southern History, Transylvania University professor F. Garvin Davenport suggested the book was "poorly organized" and he deplored the "lack of careful proof-reading", but he admitted that "certain sections of the study are interesting and informative.
[6] In 1945, Windrow criticized Nashville's elite for ignoring the city's many ills, including: the smoke smoldering the city skyline, the "civil lethargy" represented by voter apathy; the "staggering death rate" of tuberculosis victims, and assorted social ills such as high venereal disease rates, infestation of flea-ridden rats, inadequate garbage collection, juvenile delinquency, and poor housing, sanitation, and sewage.
In a 1965 article for the Peabody Reflector, Windrow argued that intellectual segregation based on IQ tests was un-American.
He emphasized, They (forces pushing the testing too strongly) ought to know that no free society was ever built on the stratification of its people socially, economically or intellectually.