David Herbert Donald

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David Herbert Donald (born October 1, 1920 in Goodman , Mississippi , † May 17, 2009 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American historian , best known for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (1995).

Life

Donald was the son of a cotton farmer and a school teacher. He studied at Millsaps College in Jackson (Mississippi) and received his doctorate in 1946 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the Lincoln biographer James G. Randall on William Herndon, the partner of Lincoln's law firm. He taught at Columbia University , Johns Hopkins University and from 1973 at Harvard University ( Charles Warren Professor of American History ). In 1991 he retired. He was visiting professor at Princeton , University College London and the University of Oxford ( Harmsworth Professor of American History ).

In 1969 Donald was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1996 he received the Lincoln Prize and in 2006 the Bruce Catton Prize . He was a member of PEN America and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography twice: in 1961 for his book on Charles Sumner and the beginning of the Civil War , and in 1988 for his biography of Thomas Wolfe . At the time of his death, he was working on a biography of John Quincy Adams .

He was married to the historian Aida DiPace Donald.

Fonts

  • Herndon, Lincoln's law partner , 1948
  • Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the War, 1861-1865 , Macmillan 1956
  • Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era , Knopf 1956, 3rd Edition Vintage Books 2001
  • Editor (with Richard Current ) and Author: Why the North Won the Civil War , Louisiana State University Press 1960
  • Civil War and Reconstruction , Boston: Heath 1961 (adaptation of the book by his teacher James G. Randall ), Norton 2001 (with Jean H. Baker, Michael F. Holt)
  • Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War , New York: Knopf 1960
  • Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man , 1970
  • Charles Sumner , Da Capo Press 1996
  • Politics of Reconstruction, 1863–1867 , Louisiana State University Press 1965
  • Liberty and Union , Little Brown and Company 1978
  • Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe , Harvard University Press 2003
  • Lincoln , Simon and Schuster 1995
  • Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Domestic Life , Simon and Schuster 1999
  • We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends , Simon and Schuster 2003
  • Editor with Aida DiPace Donald: Diary of Charles Francis Adams , 2 volumes, Harvard University Press 1964
  • Published in: Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase , 1954

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 15, 2016
  2. ↑ PEN American Center Annual Report , Vol. 2008-2009 , p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Donald, David Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Goodman , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2009
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts