David Herbert Donald (1920–2009)

Author of Lincoln

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Lincoln 1,595 copies, 14 reviews
Why the North Won the Civil War (also Editor; Contributor) (also Editor; Contributor) 162 copies
Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era 161 copies
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends 154 copies
With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War (Editor) 131 copies, 1 review
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe 119 copies, 1 review
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War 117 copies, 1 review
Lincoln's Herndon 68 copies
Lincoln At Home: Two Glimpses Of Abraham Lincolns Family Life 55 copies
Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported… 25 copies
Liberty and Union 23 copies
Charles Sumner and The Rights of Man 18 copies, 1 review
Divided we fought; a pictorial history of the war, 1861-1865 9 copies
The Politics of Reconstruction, 1863-1867 9 copies

Gone for a Soldier - The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard 6 copies

The Nation in crisis, 1861-1877 3 copies

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We Americans 215 copies, 2 reviews
Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon (Foreword) 109 copies

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David Herbert Donald

Booknotes, Sunday, December 24, 1995

David Herbert Donald discusses Lincoln.

Professor Donald talked about his recent book, Lincoln, published by Simon and Schuster . The book emphasizes four aspects of President Lincoln's life: his ambition, his law practice, his married life and his several electoral defeats. Parts of the audio cassette abridgement were also played. Professor Donald's first book was about President Lincoln's law partner. (timspalding)… (more)

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A discussion with David Herbert Donald

Charlie Rose, Wednesday, November 1, 1995

David Herbert Donald

A conversation with historian David Herbert Donald of Harvard University about Abraham Lincoln. (timspalding)

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Donald, David Herbert

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Date of birth

1920-10-01

Date of death

2009-05-17

Burial location

Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA

Gender

male

Nationality

USA

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Birthplace

Goodman, Mississippi, USA

Place of death

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Places of residence

Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA

Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA

Key West, Florida, USA

Education

University of Illinois (MA ∙ History ∙ 1942)

Millsaps College (BA ∙ History ∙ Sociology)

University of Illinois ( [1946])

Occupations

professor (History)

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biographer

Relationships

Donald, Aida D. (wife)

Randall, James Garfield (teacher)

Organizations

Southern Historical Association (President ∙ 1969-1970)

Harvard University

Johns Hopkins University

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Smith College

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