Don E. Fehrenbacher


Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for , his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize.

Biography

Born on August 21, 1920 in Sterling, Illinois. From 1953 to 1984 Fehrenbacher taught American history at Stanford University. Fehrenbacher died in Stanford, California. He was survived by his wife Virginia, three children, numerous grandchildren, a sister, Shirley, and two brothers, Robert and Marvin. His posthumous book, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery, won the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 2002.

Publications

1957 - Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth

1962 - Prelude To Greatness: Lincoln In The 1850s

1964 - A Basic History of California

1964 - Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

1968 - California: An Illustrated History

1968 - Changing Image of Lincoln in American Historiography

1969 - Era of Expansion 1800-1848

1970 - The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln

1970 - Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, 1840-1861

1970 - Leadership of Abraham Lincoln

1976 - The Impending Crisis

1978 - Tradition, Conflict and Modernization

1978 -

1979 - The Minor Affair: An Adventure in Forgery and Detection

1980 - The South and Three Sectional Crises

1981 - Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective

1987 - Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays

1989 - Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858

1989 - Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865

1989 - Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South

1995 - Sectional Crisis and Southern Constitutionalism

1996 - Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln

2001 - The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery