Ernest Freeberg is an American historian in 19th and 20th-century American culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Tennessee and previously the Lindsay Young Professor, Beaman Professor, and Head of the Department of History. In 2002, he was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize.
Books in order of publication:
The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language (2002)
Democracy’s Prisoner (2008)
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America (2013)
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement – 2020
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