UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg died on January 28. He was born on September 28, 1922.
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg died on January 28. He was born on September 28, 1922.
NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.
William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102.
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...
He received some of the top awards given to historians, including the Parkman and Bancroft prizes ... demonstrated how presidents from Truman to George W. Bush attempted to shun and/or embrace ...
The book received the prestigious Bancroft Prize and Francis Parkman Prize from Columbia University ... His last book, “Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams ...