David Herbert Donald
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Majoring in history and sociology, Donald earned his bachelor degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned his PhD in 1946 under the eminent, leading Lincoln scholar, James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. Randall as a mentor had a big influence on Donald’s life and career, and encouraged his protege to write his dissertation on Lincoln’s law partner, William Herndon. The dissertation eventually became his first book, Lincoln’s Herndon, published in 1948. The effect Randall had on Donald was later illustrated by the fact that he gave his only son the middle name Randall in honor of his former mentor. After graduating, 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 g raduate students including Jean H. Baker, William J. Cooper, Jr., Michael Holt, Irwin Unger, and Ari Hoogenboom. He received the Pulitzer Prize twice (1961 and 1988), several honorary degrees, and served as president of the Southern Historical Association.David H. Donald was the Charles Warren Professor of American History (emeritus from 1991) at Harvard University. He wrote over thirty books, including well received biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner. He specialized in the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, and in the history of the South.
*Pulitzer Prize, ”Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War”” *Pulitzer Prize, ”“Look Homeward
“We are Lincoln men” : | Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War / | Liberty and Union | Liberty and Union / | Lincoln | Lincoln / | Lincoln at home : | Lincoln reconsidered : | Look homeward | Look homeward : | We are Lincoln men : | Why The North Won The Civil War. | Why the North won the Civil War /