William W. Freehling
William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.[1] Freehling has written several well-respected works on the American South during the antebellum era and on the American Civil War, most notably Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, which won the 1967 Bancroft Prize, and a two-volume work on the antebellum period, Road to Disunion.
William W. Freehling | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Historian |
Awards
- 1965 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians[2]
- 1967 Bancroft Prize
- Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities [3]
- 2007 Louis R. Gottschalk Lecture [4]
Works
- The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-507259-4.
- William W. Freehling; Craig M. Simpson, eds. (1992). Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507945-6.
- Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-19-507681-3.
- The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-508808-3.
- "The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible" (with Allan Nevins), in Francis G. Couvares, George Athan Billias, Martha Saxton, eds., Interpretations of American History: Through Reconstruction. Simon & Schuster, 2000. ISBN 978-0-684-86773-1
- The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2001
- The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4.
- "Arthur Schlesinger Jr: William W. Freehling Remembers", OUP blog
- William W. Freehling; Craig M. Simpson, eds. (2010). Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-813-92991-0.
- Becoming Lincoln. University of Virginia Press, 2018. ISBN 9780813941561
References
- "William W. Freehling Reexamines Nullification in Worcester, Oct. 22 « Abolitionism in Black and White". abolitionisminblackandwhite.com. Archived from the original on 25 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- "Allan Nevins Prize - Past Winners". Society of American Historians. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- "VFH - Press Release - William Freehling - Lincoln Discussion". Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- "Louis R. Gottschalk Lectures — University of Louisville". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
Further reading
- Ward, John William 1955. Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age. New York: Oxford University Press.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "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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