Freehling, William W(ilhartz)

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FREEHLING, William W(ilhartz)

FREEHLING, William W(ilhartz). American, b. 1935. Genres: History. Career: University of California, Berkeley, Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1961-63; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, instructor in history, 1963-64; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, faculty member, from 1964, associate professor, 1967-70, professor of history, 1970-72; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, professor of history, 1972-91; State University of New York, Buffalo, professor of history, 1991-94; University of Kentucky, Singletary Professor of the Humanities, 1994-. Bancroft History Prize, 1967; Owsley History Prize, 1990. National Humanities Fellow, 1968; Guggenheim Fellow, 1970; AAS/NEH Fellow, 1990. Publications: Prelude to the Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina 1816-1836, 1965; The Nullification Era: A Documentary Record, 1967; Slavery and Freedom, 1982; The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, 1990; Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860, 1992; The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War, 1994; Place not Forgotten, 1999; South versus the South, 2001. Address: Dept of History, 1501 Patterson Office Tower 0027, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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