William G. Thomas III
American historian (born 1964)
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Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Clarens Estate, Alexandria, Virginia[1] |
Education | Trinity College University of Virginia |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
William G. Thomas III (born 1964) is an American historian. He is a Professor of History and the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[2] His research focuses on the Southeastern United States, including slavery, the American Civil War and the New South. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.[3]
Works
- Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (1999)
- The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (2011)
- A Question Of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (2020)
References
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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