Randall.ĭonald’s economy of prose and dense detail won him early notice, especially with his first published article, “The Scalawags in Mississippi Reconstruction,” which appeared in the Journal of Southern History in 1944. He earned first his master’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1942 and then completed his doctorate in history in 1945 under the supervision of the renowned Lincoln scholar, James G.
He completed his degree in history and sociology at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, before attending graduate school at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and-briefly-the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His father was a farmer and his mother a former schoolteacher when David was born in 1920 in Goodman, Mississippi. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography life member of the AHAĭavid Herbert Donald’s untimely death on May 17, 2009, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the virtues of one of the most accomplished historians of his generation.
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