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William G. Thomas III
Born	1964 (age 59–60) Clarens Estate, Alexandria, Virginia
Education	Trinity College University of Virginia
Occupation	Historian
Employer	University of Nebraska–Lincoln

William G. Thomas III (born 1964) is an American historian. He is a Professor of History and the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research focuses on the Southeastern United States, including slavery, the American Civil War and the New South. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.

Works

• Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (1999)
• The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (2011)
• A Question Of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (2020)

References

1. Thomas III, William G. (2013). "My Home, the House of the Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
2. "William Thomas III". Department of History. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
3. "WILLIAM G. THOMAS III". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

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