Don Edward Fehrenbacher
# Don Edward Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (Sterling, 21 agosto 1920 – 13 dicembre 1997) è stato uno storico statunitense.

## Biografia

Nato a Sterling, nello stato statunitense dell'Illinois, da Joseph Henry Fehrenbacher e Mary Barton, studiò al Cornell College e poi all'università di Chicago.

Sposò Virginia Ellen Swaney, ed ebbe tre figli, Rush, Susan e David. Nel 1979 venne premiato con il premio Pulitzer per la storia per Dred Scott Decision. Fu docente di storia alla Stanford University..

## Opere

* Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth 1957
* Prelude To Greatness: Lincoln In The 1850s, 1962
* A Basic History of California, 1964
* Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings, 1964
* California: An Illustrated History, 1968
* Changing Image of Lincoln in American Historiographt, 1968
* Era of Expansion 1800-1848, 1969
* The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln, 1970
* Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, 1840-1861, 1970
* Leadership of Abraham Lincoln, 1970
* The Impending Crisis, 1976
* Tradition, Conflict and Modernization, 1978
* The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, 1978
* The Minor Affair: An Adventure in Forgery and Detection, 1979
* The South and Three Sectional Crises, 1980
* Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective, 1981
* Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays, 1987
* Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, 1989
* Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865, 1989
* Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South, 1989
* Sectional Crisis and Southern Constitutionalism, 1995
* Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (completato con Virginia), 1996
* The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery (poi completato da Ward M. McAfee), 2001
