Ernest Freeberg is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

in 19th and 20th-century

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, currently a Distinguished

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Professor at the

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state ...

and previously the Lindsay Young Professor, Beaman Professor, and Head of the Department of History. In 2002, he was awarded the

John H. Dunning Prize The John H. Dunning Prize is a biennial book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book in history related to the United States. The prize was established in 1929, and is regarded as one of the most prestigious national h ...

Bibliography

* ''The Education of

Laura Bridgman Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, twenty years before the more famous Helen Keller; Laura's friend Anne Sullivan beca ...

: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language'' (2002) * ''Democracy's Prisoner'' (2008) * ''The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America'' (2013)

References

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