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Freehling, William W(ilhartz) 1935-

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Born December 26, 1935, in Chicago, IL; son of Norman and Edna (Wilhartz) Freehling; married Natalie Paperno, January 27, 1961 (divorced, April, 1970); married Alison Goodyear, June 19, 1971; children: (first marriage) Alan, Deborah; (second marriage) Alison, William. Education:Harvard University, A.B., 1958; University of California—Berkeley, M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1964.

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Home—3500 Huntertown Rd., Versailles, KY 40383-9198. Office—Dept. of History, University of Kentucky, 1715 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Agent—c/o Author Mail, Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. E-mail—[email protected].

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Historian, educator, Civil War scholar. University of California—Berkeley, teaching fellow, 1961-63; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, instructor, 1963-64; University of Michigan, assistant professor, 1964-67, associate professor, 1967-70, professor of history, 1970-72; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, professor of history, 1972-91; State University of N

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William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. 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.

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  • William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. 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. (en)
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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,

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