Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (born 1920)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

American historian

Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M.…