Randall, the era’s most outstanding Civil War scholar. He became one of his generation’s preeminent historians, a masterful literary craftsman, and twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in biography.ĭonald’s academic distinctions were blue-blooded: highest honors as a graduate of Millsaps College in 1941 a brief graduate stint at the University of North Carolina, which was then in the vanguard of the sociological inquiry that engaged him and finally, doctoral training at the University of Illinois under James G. Donald’s early interests were in music and perhaps ministry, but they were eventually overtaken by his passion for history and the life of the mind. His father, Ira Unger Donald, was a cotton planter his mother, Sue Ella Belford Donald, had been a schoolteacher. David Herbert Donald, a biographer and a historian of the US Civil War era, was born in Goodman, Mississippi, on 1 October 1920.
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