Don E. Fehrenbacher  Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for "", his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's "The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861", which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize. Born on August 21, 1920 in Sterling, Illinois. From 1953 to 1984 Fehrenbacher taught American history at Stanford University. Fehrenbacher died in Stanford, California. He was survived by his wife Virginia, three children, numerous grandchildren, a sister, Shirley, and two brothers, Robert and Marvin. His posthumous book, "The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery" (completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee), won the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 2002.  1957 - "Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth" 1962 - "Prelude To Greatness: Lincoln In The 1850s" 1964 - "A Basic History of California" 1964 - "Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings" 1968 - "California: An Illustrated History" 1968 - "Changing Image of Lincoln in American Historiography" 1969 - "Era of Expansion 1800-1848" 1970 - "The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln" 1970 - "Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, 1840-1861" 1970 - "Leadership of Abraham Lincoln (Problems in American History)" 1976 - "The Impending Crisis" (completed and edited by) 1978 - "Tradition, Conflict and Modernization (Studies in Social Discontinuity)" 1978 - "" 1979 - "The Minor Affair: An Adventure in Forgery and Detection" 1980 - "The South and Three Sectional Crises" 1981 - "Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective" 1987 - "Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays" 1989 - "Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858" 1989 - "Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865" 1989 - "Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South" 1995 - "Sectional Crisis and Southern Constitutionalism" 1996 - "Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln" (compiled and edited with Virginia) 2001 - "The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery" (completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee)