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Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. He taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and, from 1973, Harvard University. He also taught at Smith College, the University of North Wales, Princeton University, University College London and served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. At Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Harvard he trained dozens of graduate students including Jean H. Baker, William J. Cooper, Jr., Michael Holt, Irwin Unger, and Ari Hoogenboom. He received two Pulitzer prizes, several honorary degrees, and served as president of the Southern Historical Association. James G. Randall (1881-1953), was a leading American historian of the mid 20th century, specializing on Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War. ... A Corner of Main Quad The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, or simply Illinois), is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Smith College is a private, independent womens liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Affiliations University of London Russell Group LERU EUA ACU Golden Triangle G5 Website http://www. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Currently David H. Donald is the Charles Warren Professor of American History (emeritus since 1991) at Harvard University. He has written over thirty books, including well received biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner. He specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, and in the history of the South. Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Harvard redirects here. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the contemporary author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. ... For other persons named Charles Sumner, see Charles Sumner (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Reconstruction (disambiguation). ...

He is best known for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, which has been praised by Eric Foner as the best biography of Lincoln, as well as his Pulitzer-Prize winning biographies of politician Charles Sumner and writer Thomas Wolfe, along with his revision of the Randall textbook, Civil War and Reconstruction (1961, 2001). For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. ... For other persons named Charles Sumner, see Charles Sumner (disambiguation). ... Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the contemporary author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. ...

Donald's first book Lincoln's Herndon (1948) was a heavily researched and annotated, and skillfully written biography of William Herndon, the junior partner in Abraham Lincoln's law firm in Springfield, Illinois. Herndon was Lincoln's trusted aide until Lincoln became president and, in 1889 published a highly controversial biography of Lincoln based on numerous interviews. Donald concluded that Herndon, "stands, in the backward glance of history, as myth-maker and truth-teller." In his introduction, Carl Sandburg, the poet and Lincoln biographer, hailed Donald's book as the answer to scholars' prayers: “When is someone going to do the life of Bill Herndon. Isn't it about time? Now the question is out.” David Potter, whose own credentials as a Lincoln scholar gave his words authority, said Donald's biography of Charles Sumner portrayed, "Sumner as a man with acute psychological inadequacies” and exposed Sumner's "facade of pompous rectitude." Donald's evenhanded approach to Sumner, Potter concluded, was a model for biographers working with a difficult subject. "If it does not make Sumner attractive [the book] certainly makes him understandable."^[1] William Henry Herndon was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln Works Life of Lincoln by Herndon with Jesse Weik Categories: Abraham Lincoln | Substubs ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... For the passenger train service, see Carl Sandburg (Amtrak). ... David Potter is founder and Chairman of the microcomputer systems company Psion plc. ... For other persons named Charles Sumner, see Charles Sumner (disambiguation). ...

Unlike the neoabolitionist historians who dominated the field after 1960, Donald is known for his political conservatism He has argued (like Randall) that the American Civil War was a needless war caused or hastened by the fanaticism of people like Charles Sumner. Like Randall he greatly admires Abraham Lincoln.^[2] Neoabolitionist (or neo-abolitionist or new abolitionism) is a term used by some historians to refer to the rebirth of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in a limited number of cases, to the late 20th century historiographic tradition in United States history by... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... For other persons named Charles Sumner, see Charles Sumner (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ...

Books

• Lincoln's Herndon (1948)
• Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the War, 1861—1865 (1952)
• Editor, Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase. (1954)
• Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era (1947, 2nd edition 1961)(ISBN 0-679-72310-2)
• Editor, Why the North Won the Civil War (1962) (ISBN 0-02-031660-7)
• Civil War and Reconstruction (1961; 2001) (ISBN 0-393-97427-8), 2001 edition with Jean H. Baker & Michael F. Holt; 1961 edition with James G. Randall.
• Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (1960), prize-winning scholarly biography to 1860; Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970), biography from 1861.
• Politics of Reconstruction, 1863-—1867 (1965)
• Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, Harvard University Press (2003) (ISBN 0-674-00869-3)
• Lincoln (1996)
• We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (2003) (ISBN 0-7432-5468-6)
• Editor with Aida DiPace Donald, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volumes 1 and 2, January 1820 - September 1829, Harvard University Press.

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References

• Paul Goodman, "David Donald's Charles Sumner Reconsidered" in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3. (Sep., 1964), pp. 373-387. online at JSTOR
• Ari Hoogenboom, “David Herbert Donald: A Celebration, ” in A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald, ed. William J. Cooper, Jr., et al. (Louisiana State University Press, 1985), 1—15.
• Robert Allen Rutland, "David Herbert Donald," in Robert Allen Rutland, ed. Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000 U of Missouri Press. (2000) pp 35-48

1. ^ Rutland (2000) p. 41.
2. ^ Rutland (2000)