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Don Edward Fehrenbacher
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| Born | August 21, 1920 Sterling, Illinois, U.S.
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| Died | December 13, 1997 (aged 77) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
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| Education | Cornell College (BA) University of Oxford (MA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation | History professor |
| Known for | 19th century U.S. history |
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.
