Douglas Southall Freeman (May 16, 1886 – June 13, 1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, radio commentator, and author. He is best...
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Stewart Bryan, his son D. Tennant Bryan, and the paper's editor Douglas Southall Freeman. As WPHR, a daytimer required to sign off at sunset, the station...
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his decision inevitable ("the answer he was born to make", wrote Douglas Southall Freeman; another called it a "no-brainer") given the ties to family and...
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children's book author Douglas Freeman (1916–2013), English cricketer Douglas Southall Freeman (1886–1953), American journalist Ed Freeman (1927–2008), U.S...
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biographer Douglas Southall Freeman concluded, "the great big thing stamped across that man is character." By character, says David Hackett Fischer, "Freeman meant...
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historians. Biographer Douglas Southall Freeman concluded, "The great big thing stamped across that man is character." Expanding on Freeman's assessment, historian...
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controlling interest in the Times-Dispatch to three families. He hired Douglas Southall Freeman as editor of the News Leader in 1915, and remained in control until...
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Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 74, 1962, pp. 3–21. online Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934) online ch 1 A Princeton Companion...
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is a three-volume work by Douglas Southall Freeman on the generals of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American...
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Hamilton inspired the 2015 blockbuster musical of the same name. Douglas Southall Freeman wrote an extensive seven volume biography on Washington. Historian...
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for Douglas Southall Freeman between 1945 and 1953. With Freeman, Ashworth worked on his seven volume biography on George Washington. After Freeman died...
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academics, Carroll became a researcher for Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of George Washington in 1948. After Freeman died before he could complete his biography...
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States, was published posthumously in 1915. Historians, including Douglas Southall Freeman (who grew up in Lynchburg near the former Early home and remembered...
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prominent Civil War historians have had connections to the museum. Douglas Southall Freeman, the biographer of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, started...
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Oliver Cromwell Russell Freedman (US, 1929–2018) – Abraham Lincoln Douglas Southall Freeman (US, 1886–1953) – Robert E. Lee and George Washington Leonie Frieda...
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authoritative in our generation: Samuel Eliot Morison, Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Southall Freeman". Irving popularized the nickname "Gotham" for New York City, and...
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southerners in the Confederate cause, and Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman wrote Magruder was one of its earliest heroes—"second only to Beauregard...
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Ellyson (1847–1919), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (1906–18) Douglas Southall Freeman (1886–1953), journalist and historian; author of definitive biographies...
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within the brain. He was mentioned in a dispatch by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in November 1917. On June 6, 1918, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel...
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altogether, an exceedingly formidable position", wrote historian Douglas Southall Freeman. "Had the Union engineers searched the whole countryside below...
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Hendrick, 1923, 1929 Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937 Marquis James, 1930, 1938 Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958 Samuel Eliot Morison, 1943, 1960 Walter Jackson Bate,...
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Military Memoirs of a Confederate (p. 302) and popularized by Douglas Southall Freeman in his 1934–35 biography, R.E. Lee (vol. 2, p. 462). Gallagher...
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pioneering radio broadcaster, Douglas Southall Freeman. It opened in 1954, slightly more than one year after Freeman's death. Henrico County runs a system...
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Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative (1907), praised by Douglas Southall Freeman as "altogether the best critique of the operations of the Army...
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about the size of a brigade. No copies of these orders exist. Douglas Southall Freeman, a biographer of Lee, supported this assertion, writing in 1935...
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Roosevelt every time. Henry J. Allen Dorothy Canfield Calvin Coolidge Douglas Fairbanks Edna Ferber Herbert Hoover Theodore Roosevelt Frances Louise...
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part of city. Hippodrome Theater opens in Jackson Ward 1915 – Douglas Southall Freeman becomes the editor of the Richmond News Leader, a position he would...
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day, Colonel," he said to Porter Alexander, "a glorious day!" Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants Rodes sent his men in last and this final push...
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reluctant to attack, and disobedient to General Lee. Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, wrote: "The seeds of much of the disaster at Gettysburg were sown...
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