| Full Name |
David Herbert Donald |
| Date of Birth |
01 October 1920 |
| Place of Birth |
Goodman, Mississippi, USA |
| Date of Death |
17 May 2009 |
| Place of Death |
Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Citizenship / Country of Residence |
American / United States |
| Education |
Millsaps College (BA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MA, PhD) |
| Profession |
Historian, Biographer, Professor |
| Years of Activity |
1948 - 2009 |
| Brief Information |
David Herbert Donald was a leading American historian, specializing in Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War era. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, notably for Lincoln (1995) and Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (1960). Donald served as a professor at several universities, including Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard, shaping the field of American history. |