Don Edward Fehrenbacher

Infobox Person
name = Don Edward Fehrenbacher


caption =
birth_date = August 21, 1920
birth_place = Sterling, Illinois
death_date = December 13, 1997
death_place = Palo Alto, California
other_names =
known_for = 19th century American history
occupation = History professor
nationality = American

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian.

Biography

Born in Sterling, Illinois, he was a well known historian of 19th century United States history. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won two Pulitzer prizes, one for his book about the Dred Scott Decision and one for editing and completing David M. Potter's "The Impending Crisis".

From 1953 to 1984, Fehrenbacher taught American History at Stanford University.

Fehrenbacher died on December 13, 1997 in Stanford, California. He was survived by his wife Virginia, three children, numerous grandchildren, a sister, Shirley, and two brothers, Robert and Marvin. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Don E. Fehrenbacher, 77 Authority on the Civil War |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07EEDB123FF934A25751C1A961958260 |quote=Don E. Fehrenbacher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning authority on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, died on Saturday, in Stanford, Calif. He was 77 and lived on campus at Stanford University, where he had taught history. |work=New York Times |date=December 19, 1997 |accessdate=2008-07-17 ]

Publications

1962 - Prelude To Greatness: Lincoln In The 1850s1968 - "California: An Illustrated History" 1976 - "The Impending Crisis" (completed and edited by) 1978 - "The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics" 1980 - "The South and Three Sectional Crises" 1987 - "Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays" 1996 - "Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln" (compiled and edited with Virginia) 2001 - "The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery" (completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee)

References

External links

* [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf700005nf Don Edward Fehrenbacher Papers, 1928-1997] (11.25 linear ft.) are housed in the [http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html Department of Special Collections and University Archives] at [http://library.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Libraries]