The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

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. Read more →