Don E. Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1920-1997) was an American historian specializing in 19th-century U.S. politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln, teaching at Stanford University from 1953 to 1984. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1979 for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics and completed David M. Potter's Pulitzer-winning The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1977); he also received the Lincoln Prize in 1997. Notable works include Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s (1962) and Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (1996, with his wife Virginia).