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
Born1935
NationalityAmerican
OccupationHistorian

Awards

Works
  • "Arthur Schlesinger Jr: William W. Freehling Remembers", OUP blog
  • The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-507259-4.
  • The Road to Disunion: Secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4.
  • The reintegration of American history: slavery and the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-508808-3.
  • 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.
  • Francis G. Couvares; Martha Saxton, eds. (2000). "The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible". Interpretations of American History: Through Reconstruction. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86773-1.
  • 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.
  • The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Becoming Lincoln. University of Virginia Press, 2018. ISBN 9780813941561

References
  2. "Allan Nevins Prize - Past Winners". Society of American Historians. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2010-01-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-01-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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