Biography:
Hesseltine served as a professor of history at the UW-Madison for over 30 years. Specializing in the Civil War, Hesseltine wrote more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles.
Hesseltine was originally from Virginia. Hesseltine studied at Ohio State University. He was, for a time, an active member of the Socialist Party, and opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy in the years before the United States joined World War II.
Works by William Hesseltine:
Hesseltine served as a professor of history at the UW-Madison for over 30 years. Specializing in the Civil War, Hesseltine wrote more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles.
Hesseltine was originally from Virginia. Hesseltine studied at Ohio State University. He was, for a time, an active member of the Socialist Party, and opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy in the years before the United States joined World War II.
Works by William Hesseltine:
- Civil War Prisons (1930)
- Ulysses S. Grant: Politician (1935)
- A History of the South : 1607-1936 (1936)
- Lincoln and the War Governors (1948)
- The Rise and Fall of Third Parties from Anti-Masonry to Wallace (1948)
- Confederate Leaders in the New South (1950)
- Pioneer's Mission: The Story of Lyman Copeland Draper (1954)
- The South in American History (1960)
- Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction (1960)
- The Blue and the Gray on the Nile (1961) with Hazel Catherine Wolf
- Third-Party Movements in the United States (1962)
- The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1962)