“The man who interviewed me told me I could have the job and I went to gather whatever I had and started to follow him out of his office,” Donald recalled during a 2005 interview with the Associated Press (AP).
After graduating, Donald hitchhiked north to Indianola, Miss., where he interviewed for the job of high school band teacher, a position funded by sales from a Coca-Cola machine. In his early years, Donald thought of himself as a musician rather than a historian. Donald, a leading historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, was born in 1920 in Goodman, Miss., then a segregated town, to Ira Unger Donald and Sue Ella Donald, a cotton planter and former schoolteacher, respectively. David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus, died Sunday (May 17) of heart failure at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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