William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American
historian
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, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the
University of Kentucky
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. Freehling has written several well-respected works on the
American South during the
antebellum era and on the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...
, most notably ''Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina'', which won the 1967
Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
, and a two-volume work on the antebellum period, ''Road to Disunion''.
Awards
* 1965 Allan Nevins Prize of the
Society of American Historians
* 1967
Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
* Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
* 2007 Louis R. Gottschalk Lecture
Works
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"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.
*''The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.'' Oxford University Press, 2001
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"Arthur Schlesinger Jr: William W. Freehling Remembers", ''OUP blog''*
*''Becoming Lincoln''. University of Virginia Press, 2018.
References
Further reading
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Ward, John William 1955. ''Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age''. New York: Oxford University Press.
External links
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"''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
* ttp://www.moc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=prg_lectures "Four American Presidents (But What Did They Have to Do with the Civil War?)", ''The Museum of the Confederacy'', February 20, 2010
1935 births
University of Kentucky faculty
Living people
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Bancroft Prize winners
21st-century American male writers
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