William W. Freehling
Encyclopedia
William W. Freehling is an American historian
, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky
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His work appeared in The New York Review of Books.
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 study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
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His work appeared in The New York Review of Books.
Awards
- 1965 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians
- 1967 Bancroft PrizeBancroft PrizeThe 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 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft...
- Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
- 2007 Louis R. Gottschalk Lecture
Works
- The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2001
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