William G. Thomas III
Born	1964 (age 60–61) Clarens Estate,Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.[1]
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 theUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln.^[2] His research focuses on theSoutheastern United States, includingslavery, theAmerican Civil War and theNew South. He won aGuggenheim Fellowship in 2016.^[3]

• 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)

• Appearances onC-SPAN

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