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Hans L. Trefousse

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PhD History Columbia University
Masters History Columbia University
Bachelors History City College of New York

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According to Wikipedia, Hans Louis Trefousse Early and military life Trefousse was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1935 as his parents fled the increasingly totalitarian Nazi regime. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York City College in 1942. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served as an intelligence officer in World War II, using his fluent German to interrogate German soldiers. He also participated in the Liberation of Paris, and in Leipzig saved hundreds of lives by arguing for 11 hours with a Nazi commander holed with many troops, convincing him to surrender to Allied forces.

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Hans L. Trefousse's Published Works

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The radical Republicans : Lincoln's vanguard for racial justice (1969) (55)
Andrew Johnson: A Biography (1989) (24)
Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian (1997) (20)
Before Watergate: Problems of Corruption in American Society (1979) (15)
Benjamin Franklin Wade : radical republican from Ohio (1963) (14)
Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 (review) (2013) (14)
When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans. (1998) (13)
The political history of the United States of America during the period of Reconstruction, April 15, 1865-July 15, 1870 (1972) (13)
Ben Butler: The South Called Him Beast! (1974) (12)
Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell (1977) (11)
Carl Schurz, a biography (1982) (11)
Prelude to downfall : Hitler and the United States, 1939-1941 (1968) (10)
The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: A Reassessment (2013) (9)
A President and His Impeachment@@@Impeachment of a President: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction. (1975) (9)
The cold war : a book of documents (1965) (6)
Germany and America: Essays on Problems of International Relations and Immigration. (1982) (6)
Germany and American neutrality, 1939-1941 (1969) (5)
Reconstruction: America's First Effort at Racial Democracy (1999) (5)
The Union Preserved : A Guide to Civil War Records in the New York State Archives (1999) (4)
His Own Counsel: The Life and Times of Lyman Trumball (1979) (4)
Hayes: The Diary of a President, 1875-1881 (review) (2013) (4)
Historical dictionary of Reconstruction (1991) (4)
Nineteenth-century Egalitarian (1998) (4)
From Confederation to Nation: The American Constitution, 1835–1877. By Schwartz Bernard. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Uni-versity Press, 1973. Pp. xi, 243. $10.00.) (1971) (3)
The Acquittal of Andrew Johnson and the Decline of the Radicals (2013) (3)
The Radical Republicans (1969) (3)
A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours (1987) (2)
Pearl Harbor, the continuing controversy (1982) (2)
The causes of the Civil War : institutional failure or human blunder? (1971) (2)
What happened at Pearl Harbor? : documents pertaining to the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941, and its background (1958) (2)
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (review) (2012) (2)
Lincoln's Scapegoat General: A Life of Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893 (review) (2013) (2)
Mexican Lobby: Matías Romero in Washington, 1861-1867 (review) (2012) (1)
Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869. (1991) (1)
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Volume 9: September 1865-January 1866 (review) (2012) (1)
Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet (review) (2012) (1)
CARL SCHURZ AND THE INDIANS (1984) (1)
The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate. By Allan G. Bogue. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. 369 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $28.50.) (1982) (1)
First Among Equals: Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration (2005) (1)
Carl Schurz's 1865 Southern Tour: A Reassessment (1977) (1)
Owen Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln During the Civil War (2001) (1)
Clash of Cavalry: The Battle of Brandy Station (review) (2013) (1)
Class and ethnicity: German immigrants, radicalism. and the civil war (1993) (1)
Grant. By Jean Edward Smith. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 781 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-684-84926-7.) (2002) (1)
11. The German-American Immigrants and the Newly Founded Reich (1985) (1)
Germany and America: Essays on Problems of International Relations and Immigration (1983) (1)
With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (review) (2013) (1)
The causes of the Civil War (1977) (1)
Michael William Pfau.The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln.:The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln.(Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series.) (2006) (1)
Germany and Pearl Harbor (1951) (1)
The Capture of New Orleans, 1862 (review) (2012) (0)
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. 10: February-July 1866 (review) (2012) (0)
Contributors to this issue (2002) (0)
Nationalism as a Civil Religion in the Thought of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, and Otto von Bismarck (2002) (0)
Eight Hours Before Richmond (review) (1959) (0)
The First Year (2005) (0)
Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (review) (2012) (0)
Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 337 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3208-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5885-1.) (2008) (0)
The Paper of Andrew Johnson. Vol. 15: September 1868-April 1869 (review) (2012) (0)
Second Year: Sustaining Popularity (2005) (0)
Chester G. Hearn. When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 260. $26.95 (1998) (0)
The Reconstruction of the Nation (review) (2013) (0)
Contributors to this Issue (2003) (0)
Contributors to this issue (1958) (0)
Book Reviewed:The Foundations of the American Empire: William Henry Seward and U. S. Foreign Policy, by Ernest N. Paolino (1974) (0)
Michael William Pfau. The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln. (Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series.) East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 248. $59.95 (2006) (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)
Contributors to This Issue (1987) (0)
Renomination and Reelection (2005) (0)
Michael I. Gerhardt. The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis. Princeton: Princeton Univerity Press. 1996. Pp. xiii, 233. $29.95 (1997) (0)
Defeat and Victory (2005) (0)
Triumph and Assassination (2005) (0)
Cobbler in Congress: The Life of Henry Wilson, 1812–1875. By Richard H. Abbott. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1972. xii + 289 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $13.50.) (1973) (0)
Rutherford B. Hayes (2002) (0)
On the Road to Total War: Unionism and Abolition: Political Mobilization in the North (1997) (0)
What was so Important about Carl Schurz?@@@Carl Schurz: A Biography. (1983) (0)
Nomination and Election: 1860–1861 (2005) (0)
"First among Equals" (2005) (0)
Book Review: The Political Culture of the American Whigs, by Daniel Walker Howe (1981) (0)
The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (review) (2013) (0)
The New Editor (2013) (0)
Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment (review) (2012) (0)
The Image of Lincoln in the South. By Michael Davis. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1971. 205 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.95.) (1972) (0)
Joshua R. Giddings and the Tactics of Radical Politics (review) (2013) (0)
Book Review: Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings, by Charles B. Strozier (1982) (0)
Contributors to This Issue (1992) (0)
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. 11: August 1866-January 1867 (review) (2012) (0)
State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Richard Zuczek. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xiv, 250 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-105-3.) (1997) (0)
Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments (review) (2012) (0)
The Presidency of Andrew Johnson. By Albert Castel. (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1979. viii + 262 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) (1980) (0)
Germany: Key to American Foreign Policy (1954) (0)
Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom (review) (2013) (0)
Stephen A. Douglas. By Robert W. Johannsen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. xii + 993 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $19.95.) (1974) (0)
Carl Schurz and the Politics of Identity (1996) (0)
Book reviews (1979) (0)
Prelude to Downfall: Hitler and the United States, 1939–1941. By Saul Friedländer. Translated from the French by Aline B. and Alexander Werth. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1967. Pp. xi, 328, ix. $6.95) (1968) (0)
Whitelaw Reid: Journalist, Politician, Diplomat. By Bingham Duncan. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975. vii + 305 pp. Illustration, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $11.00.) (1976) (0)

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