Don Edward Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, 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 (completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee), 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 (Problems in American History) 1976 - The Impending Crisis (completed and edited by) 1978 - Tradition, Conflict and Modernization (Studies in Social Discontinuity) 1978 - The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics 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 (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)