William W. Freehling
William W. Freehling | |
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| Born | 1935 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Historian |
William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.[1] His work appeared in The New York Review of Books.[2] He has written about the history of the American South during the antebellum era and the American Civil War.
Awards
- 1965 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians[3]
- 1967 Bancroft Prize
- Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities [4]
- 2007 Louis R. Gottschalk Lecture [5]
Works
- "Arthur Schlesinger Jr: William W. Freehling Remembers", OUP blog
- The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-507259-4.
- The Road to Disunion: Secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4.
- The reintegration of American history: slavery and the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-508808-3.
- Secession debated: Georgia's showdown in 1860. Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-19-507945-6.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - Prelude to Civil War: the nullification controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-19-507681-3.
- "The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible". Interpretations of American History: Through Reconstruction. Simon and Schuster. 2000. ISBN 978-0-684-86773-1.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-813-92991-0.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2001
References
- ^ http://abolitionisminblackandwhite.com/wordpress/?p=111
- ^ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/5716
- ^ "Allan Nevins Prize - Past Winners". Society of American Historians. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ http://www.virginiafoundation.org/pressreleases/2006/lincoln.html
- ^ http://louisville.edu/history/lewis-r-gottschalk-lectures.html
External links
- "The South Vs. the South, Reviewed by Gary Smith, Department of History, University of Dundee", American Studies Online, 14 November 2005
- "A Very Special Visit: William W. Freehling", civil War Memory, September 25, 2007
- "Historical Reconstructions", The Historical society, 2002
- "Four American Presidents (But What Did They Have to Do with the Civil War?)", The Museum of the Confederacy, February 20, 2010
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