William W. Freehling

William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.^[1] Freehling has written several well-respected works on the American South during the antebellum era and on the American Civil War, most notably Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, which won the 1967 Bancroft Prize, and a two-volume work on the antebellum period, Road to Disunion.

Awards

• 1965 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians^[2]
• 1967 Bancroft Prize
• Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities ^[3]
• 2007 Louis R. Gottschalk Lecture ^[4]

Works

• "Arthur Schlesinger Jr: William W. Freehling Remembers", OUP blog
• The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-507259-4.
• The Road to Disunion: Secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4.
• The reintegration of American history: slavery and the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-508808-3.
• William W. Freehling, Craig M. Simpson, eds. (1992). Secession debated: Georgia's showdown in 1860. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507945-6.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Prelude to Civil War: the nullification controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-19-507681-3.
• Francis G. Couvares, Martha Saxton, eds. (2000). "The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible". Interpretations of American History: Through Reconstruction. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86773-1.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• William W. Freehling, Craig M. Simpson, eds. (2010). Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-813-92991-0.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2001

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• "The South Vs. the South, Reviewed by Gary Smith, Department of History, University of Dundee", American Studies Online, 14 November 2005
• "A Very Special Visit: William W. Freehling", civil War Memory, September 25, 2007
• "Historical Reconstructions", The Historical society, 2002
• "Four American Presidents (But What Did They Have to Do with the Civil War?)", The Museum of the Confederacy, February 20, 2010