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Also known as David H. Donald, David Donald

American historian of the American Civil War

Person · Open Library

Born
1 October 1920
Died
2009
Works
56

Top works

  • Grant, Lee, Lincoln and the Radicals
  • Why the North Won the Civil War.[Six essays on reasons behind the Confederacy's defeat].
  • Liberty and Union
  • Lincoln's Herndon. Introd. by Carl Sandburg.
  • Gone for a Soldier

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1920-10-08
Active to
1986-02-11
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Listeners
7
Total plays
132

David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War. Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. 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 traine

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Instance of
human
Given name
Herbert
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Goodman
Place of death
Boston
Occupation
biographer
Languages spoken
English language
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name in native language
David Herbert Donald
date of death
2009-05-17
date of birth
1920-10-01
member of
PEN America
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