He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.
Leuchtenburg died Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to his son, Joshua A. Leuchtenburg, who cited ...
President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...
NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.