William W. Freehling

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William W. Freehling
Born
William Wilhartz Freehling

(1935-12-26) December 26, 1935 (age 88)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard College
University of California, Berkeley
OccupationHistorian
Spouses
Natalie Paperno
(m. 1961; div. 1970)
Alison Goodyear
(after 1971)
Children4

William Wilhartz Freehling (born December 26, 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.[1]

Early life[edit]

Freehling was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 26, 1935, a son of Norman Freehling and Edna (née Wilhartz) Freehling.[2] He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1958. He wrote his undergraduate honors thesis under noted U.S. historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. He received his M.A. in 1959 and his Ph.D. in 1964, from the University of California, Berkeley, with historian Kenneth M. Stampp serving as his dissertation supervisor.[2]

Career[edit]

Freehling taught at Berkeley, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. He also held endowed chairs at SUNY, Buffalo and Kentucky.[3]

Freehling has written several well-respected works on the American South during the antebellum era and on the American Civil War. His most notable book, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, won the 1967 Bancroft Prize.

As of 2011, he was senior fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.[4]

Personal life[edit]

On January 27, 1961, Freehling married Natalie Paperno. Before their divorce in April 1970, they became the parents of two children, Alan and Deborah Freehling,[2] and on June 19, 1971, he married fellow historian Alison Harrison (née Goodyear) Bradshaw.[5] The former wife of William Emmons Bradshaw,[6] she was a daughter of Frank H. Goodyear Jr. and a granddaughter of lumber baron Frank H. Goodyear and Edmund P. Rogers.[7] Together, they are the parents of two children, Alison and William Freehling.[2]

Awards[edit]

Works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "William W. Freehling Reexamines Nullification in Worcester, Oct. 22 « Abolitionism in Black and White". abolitionisminblackandwhite.com. Archived from the original on 25 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Freehling, William W(ilhartz) 1935-". www.encyclopedia.com. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  3. ^ "William W. Freehling". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  4. ^ Freehling, William W. (16 April 2011). "Henry Wise's Pistol". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  5. ^ Crofts, Daniel W. (1991). "Review of The Road to Disunion. Volume 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 99 (2): 207–210. ISSN 0042-6636.
  6. ^ "William Bradshaw Marries Alison Harrison Goodyear". The New York Times. 21 June 1964. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  7. ^ Times, Special to The New York (21 December 1963). "Alison H. Goodyear Prospective Bride". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Allan Nevins Prize - Past Winners". Society of American Historians. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  9. ^ "VFH - Press Release - William Freehling - Lincoln Discussion". Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
  10. ^ "Louis R. Gottschalk Lectures — University of Louisville". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
  11. ^ Remini, Robert V. (30 September 1990). "Plunging Into Civil War". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-05-16. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  12. ^ Chaffin, Tom (12 June 1994). "In Short/Civil War". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

Further reading[edit]

  • Ward, John William (1955). Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age. New York: Oxford University Press.

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