In this he shared with John Hope Franklin (who died less than two months before him) the distinction of freeing the Civil War-Reconstruction period from the fetters of region and race by which it had so long been bound. Renowned Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald dies at 88. And although he was a white Southerner, a Mississippian, whose family came to America in the 1630s, he retold, with elegance, eloquence, and understanding the antislavery/Union side of the great American saga of the Civil War and Reconstruction. One of David Donald’s signal contributions to this enterprise was to bring an unmatched psychological understanding to the lives of major figures in the American past: Charles Sumner, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Wolfe. In doing so, they made their discipline, for a season, a significant intellectual force in the wider culture. Much more than a political biography, Lincoln seats us behind the desk of a president who was both a master of ambiguity and expediency and a great moral leader. It would stink in the land to have it said that an appropriation of 20,000 for furnishing the house had been overrun by the President when the poor freezing soldiers could not have blankets, he went on. Lincoln, David Herbert Donald 9780684825359 Boeken bol. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Lincoln by David Herbert Donald. Vann Woodward), immigration and ethnicity (Oscar Handlin), culture and society (Daniel Boorstin), Colonial intellectual history (Bernard Bailyn), and African-Americans and racism (John Hope Franklin), American law (J. Most people don't even remember his name, never mind what he said. A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincolns life. They put a new face on political ideas and party behavior (Richard Hofstadter), the post-Civil War South and Jim Crow (C. David Herbert Donald was one of the enormously influential group of American historians who, after World War II, re-envisioned major segments of the American past.

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