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Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald dies
[May 19, 2009] LINCOLN, Mass. (AP) -- David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, has died.
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Donald's wife of 54 years, Aida, says her husband died of heart failure at a Boston hospital on Sunday. He was 88. A history professor emeritus at Harvard University, Donald won Pulitzers for biographies of abolitionist Charles Sumner and novelist Thomas Wolfe. But his books on Lincoln became his legacy. Presidents from Kennedy to the first George Bush summoned him for lectures, and the books drew praise from scholars. In addition to his wife, the Mississippi native is survived by a son and two grandchildren. Graveside services are scheduled for Wednesday. |
