Don E. Fehrenbacher
Don Edward Fehrenbacher (born August 21, 1920 in Sterling , Illinois , † December 13, 1997 in Stanford , California ) was an American historian specializing in 19th century American history. He was a professor at Stanford University .
Fehrenbacher studied at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1946 and at the University of Chicago with a master's degree in 1948 and a doctorate in 1951. During World War II , he was deployed as a bomber navigator over Germany . From 1949 to 1953 he taught at Coe College in Iowa and from 1953 at Stanford University, where he was William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies from 1966 . In 1984 he retired.
He was visiting professor at the University of Oxford ( Harmsworth Professor of American History 1967/68), the College of William & Mary (1973/74), at University College London (1978) and at Louisiana State University (1978).
He dealt among other things with Abraham Lincoln (and was regarded in the US as one of the leading experts in Lincoln), which in the history of the Civil War important ruling of the Supreme Court , v Dred Scott. Sandford (1857), and generally with slavery in the United States , western expansion, the history of California, and constitutional history. His book on the Dred Scott case received the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, as did a book on the prehistory of the Civil War, which he completed for David M. Potter (at his request). Historian C. Vann Woodward called his book on the Dred Scott case probably the most thorough investigation of a Supreme Court judgment ever published.
In 1997 he received the Lincoln Prize for his book on the Dred Scott Fall and Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s . In 1996, after twelve years of work (together with his wife Virginia), he published a book with 1900 quotations from Lincoln (based on the testimony of over 500 contemporaries).
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Guggenheim Fellow .
Fonts
- Chicago Giant: A Biography of " Long John" Wentworth , 1957
- Prelude To Greatness: Lincoln In The 1850s , 1962
- A Basic History of California 1964
- Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings , 1964
- California: An Illustrated History , 1968
- Changing Image of Lincoln in American Historiography , 1968
- Era of Expansion 1800-1848 , 1969
- The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln , 1970
- Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, 1840-1861 , 1970
- Leadership of Abraham Lincoln (Problems in American History) , 1970
- with David M. Potter The Impending Crisis 1848-1861 , Harper and Row 1976
- Tradition, Conflict and Modernization (Studies in Social Discontinuity) , 1978
- The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics , 1978
- The Minor Affair: An Adventure in Forgery and Detection , 1979
- The South and Three Sectional Crises , 1980
- Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective , 1981
- Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays , 1987
- Editor Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 , 2 volumes, 1989
- Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South , 1989
- Sectional Crisis and Southern Constitutionalism , 1995
- with Ward M. McAfee The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery , 2005 (received the Avery O. Craven Award)
- Editor Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln , Stanford University Press 1996
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fehrenbacher, Don E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fehrenbacher, Don Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American modern historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sterling , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1997 |
| Place of death | Stanford , California |