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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, 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. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize.

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The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976) (209)
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery (2001) (163)
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (1978) (93)
Slavery, law, and politics : the Dred Scott case in historical perspective (1981) (47)
A Stampp Collection@@@The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War. (1980) (43)
Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (1996) (26)
History of American Presidential Elections (1971) (26)
The letters of Stephen A. Douglas (1962) (25)
Prelude to Greatness : Lincoln in the 1850's (1962) (22)
The Slaveholding Republic (2002) (17)
Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays (1987) (16)
The South and the concurrent majority (1973) (15)
Sectional Crisis and Southern Constitutionalism (1995) (14)
Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South (1989) (14)
The South and three sectional crises (1980) (14)
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln's First Vice-President (1969) (12)
History and American society : essays of David M. Potter (1973) (12)
Speeches and writings 1832-1858 : speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1989) (10)
Speeches and writings 1859-1865 : speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, presidential messages and proclamations (1989) (9)
Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings (1964) (8)
The Anti-Lincoln Tradition (1982) (7)
Freedom under Lincoln (1965) (7)
The Pacific Slope: A History of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada Earl Pomeroy (1966) (7)
The Era of Expansion, 1800-1848 (1968) (5)
Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of William Lloyd Garrison by Walter M. Merrill (review) (1964) (5)
Chicago Giant: A Biography Of Long John Wentworth (1957) (5)
The New Political History and the Coming of the Civil War (1985) (4)
Freedom and Its Limitations in American Life (1977) (4)
David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait (1970) (3)
Lincoln, Douglas, and the "Freeport Question" (1961) (2)
The leadership of Abraham Lincoln (1970) (2)
"A People's Contest": The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865: The New American Series. (1991) (2)
Lincoln's Wartime Leadership: The First Hundred Days (1987) (2)
Roger B. Taney and the Sectional Crisis (1977) (2)
David M. Potter: A Memorial Resolution (1971) (2)
The changing image of Lincoln in American historiography : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 21 May 1968 (1968) (2)
Slavery and the Founding of the Republic (2002) (1)
A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law, and Equality in the Civil War Era: Paludan, Phillip S.: Urbana: University of Illinois Press 309 pp., Publication Date: May 27, 1975 (1975) (1)
Prelude to Greatness (1962) (1)
Background to Conflict@@@The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. (1991) (1)
What did the Dred Scott Case Really Decide?@@@The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. (1979) (1)
Professionalism and the Chains of Slavery (1979) (1)
The War for the Union. Volume III: The Organized War, 1863-1864; Volume IV: The Organized War to Victory, 1864-1865. (1972) (1)
Essays in the History of Liberty: Seaver Institute Lectures at the Huntington Library (1990) (1)
Dred Scott v. Sandford: Right Result, Wrong Reasons? (1980) (1)
Proslavery Law and Antislavery Judges@@@Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. (1975) (1)
Abraham Lincoln's philosophy of common sense : an analytical biography of a great mind (1966) (1)
Slavery in American Foreign Relations (2002) (1)
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson (review) (1963) (1)
History and American Society: Essays (1973) (1)
In quest of the psychohistorical Lincoln. (1983) (1)
The Republican Revolution (2002) (0)
Contributors to this issue (1979) (0)
David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait. By David A. Williams. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1969. ix + 274 pp. Illustration, notes, and index. $7.50.) (1970) (0)
They Have No Rights: Dred Scott's Struggle for Freedom@@@The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (1980) (0)
The illustrated biographical dictionary : the men & women who have shaped the world's destiny (1990) (0)
Slavery in the National Capital (2002) (0)
The Era of Expansion: 1800-1848@@@The New Industrial Society (1970) (0)
California: A Bicentennial History David Lavender (1977) (0)
Race and Slavery in the American Constitutional System: 1787-1865 (1984) (0)
Review of History of the Supreme Court of the United States: Volume V, the Taney Period, 1836-64 by Carl B. Swisher (1974) (0)
The Fugitive Slave Problem to 1850 (2002) (0)
Book Review: The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis, by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1988) (0)
On Predicting the past: Potter and Plumb@@@History and American Society: Essays of David M. Potter@@@In the Light of History (1974) (0)
The Fugitive Slave Problem, 1850 to 1864 (2002) (0)
Slavery in the Federal Territories (2002) (0)
Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol: Davis, William C.: (Southern Biography Series): Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 687 pp., Publication Date: September 30, 1974 (1975) (0)
The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vanguard for Racial Justice.@@@Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the Civil War.@@@Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics. (1971) (0)
1979 Award. About the Significance of a Supreme Court Decision (1993) (0)
William Safire. Freedom. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 1987. Pp. xxi, 1125. $24.95 (1989) (0)
Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-1832@@@The Rhetoric of Conservatism: The Virginia Convention of 1829-30 and the Conservative Tradition in the South (1984) (0)
Contributors to this Issue (1995) (0)
Book Review: President James Buchanan. A Biography, by Philip Shriver Klein. (1962) (0)
Toward a Lincoln Conversation@@@Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays. (1988) (0)
The African Slave Trade, 1789 to 1842 (2002) (0)
The African Slave Trade, 1842 to 1862 (2002) (0)
A Good Harvest from Hazardous Fields@@@History and American Society: Essays of David M. Potter. (1973) (0)
David Donald. Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1970. Pp. xxiv, 595, xxxix. $15.00 (1971) (0)
Land of Many Frontiers: A History of the American Southwest Odie B. Faulk (1969) (0)
A Good Harvest from Hazardous Fields (1973) (0)
Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War: A Political Biography. By Erwin Stanley Bradley. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966. 431 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) (1967) (0)
California; an illustrated history (1968) (0)
The South and the Concurrent Majority@@@The Changing Politics of the South (1973) (0)
Strange Enthusiasm: A Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson@@@Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850 (1969) (0)
Manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War, 1840-1861 (1970) (0)

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