Douglas Southall Freeman

thumb| Douglas Southall Freeman (May 16, 1886 – June 13, 1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, radio commentator, and author. He is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for both of which he was awarded Pulitzer Prizes. Quotes One may ask...whether the nineteenth century was not a lake through which American history passed, rather than a part of the river itself. It was a muddy, bloody lake, to be sure, but it was different from the age that emptied into it and no less different from the century into which the eighteen-hundreds flowed. George Washington: A Biography, vol. 1 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948), introduction, p. xxiv External links Category:1886 births Category:1953 deaths Category:Historians from the United States Category:Biographers from the United States Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:People from Virginia