William W. Freehling
William Wilhartz Freehling (born December 26, 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.[1]
William W. Freehling | |
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| Born | William Wilhartz Freehling December 26, 1935 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard College University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouses | Natalie Paperno (m. 1961; div. 1970)Alison Goodyear (after 1971) |
| Children | 4 |
Early life edit
Freehling was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 26, 1935, a son of Norman Freehling and Edna (née Wilhartz) Freehling.[2] He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1958. He wrote his undergraduate honors thesis under noted U.S. historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. He received his M.A. in 1959 and his Ph.D. in 1964, from the University of California, Berkeley, with historian Kenneth M. Stampp serving as his dissertation supervisor.[2]
Career edit
Freehling taught at Berkeley, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. He also held endowed chairs at SUNY, Buffalo and Kentucky.[3]
Freehling has written several well-respected works on the American South during the antebellum era and on the American Civil War. His most notable book, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, won the 1967 Bancroft Prize.
As of 2011, he was senior fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.[4]
Personal life edit
On January 27, 1961, Freehling married Natalie Paperno. Before their divorce in April 1970, they became the parents of two children, Alan and Deborah Freehling,[2] and on June 19, 1971, he married fellow historian Alison Harrison (née Goodyear) Bradshaw.[5] The former wife of William Emmons Bradshaw,[6] she was a daughter of Frank H. Goodyear Jr. and a granddaughter of lumber baron Frank H. Goodyear and Edmund P. Rogers.[7] Together, they are the parents of two children, Alison and William Freehling.[2]
Awards edit
- 1965 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians[8]
- 1967 Bancroft Prize
- Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities [9]
- 2007 Louis R. Gottschalk Lecture [10]
Works edit
- The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-507259-4.[11]
- 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.
- The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-508808-3.[12]
- "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. ISBN 978-0-684-86773-1
- The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2001
- The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4.
- "Arthur Schlesinger Jr: William W. Freehling Remembers", OUP blog
- 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.
- Becoming Lincoln. University of Virginia Press, 2018. ISBN 9780813941561
References edit
- ^ . abolitionisminblackandwhite.com. Archived from the original on 25 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Freehling, William W(ilhartz) 1935-". www.encyclopedia.com. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ "William W. Freehling". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ^ Freehling, William W. (16 April 2011). "Henry Wise's Pistol". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ Crofts, Daniel W. (1991). "Review of The Road to Disunion. Volume 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 99 (2): 207–210. ISSN 0042-6636.
- ^ "William Bradshaw Marries Alison Harrison Goodyear". The New York Times. 21 June 1964. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (21 December 1963). "Alison H. Goodyear Prospective Bride". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ . Society of American Historians. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ^ Remini, Robert V. (30 September 1990). . The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-05-16. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ Chaffin, Tom (12 June 1994). "In Short/Civil War". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
Further reading edit
- Ward, John William (1955). Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age. New York: Oxford University Press.
External links edit
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "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