# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-edward-fehrenbacher
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:41:07.766Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-edward-fehrenbacher"
name: "Don Edward Fehrenbacher"
slug: "don-edward-fehrenbacher"
description: "Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize."
tagline: "American historian (1920-1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Fehrenbacher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-08-21"
deathDate: "1997-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.43478260869565
  historical:           5.674514666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "دون ادوارد فيرينباخر"
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    title: "Ференбахер, Дон"
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    title: "Don E. Fehrenbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Edward_Fehrenbacher"
    title: "Don Edward Fehrenbacher"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump