of World War I and World War II military campaigns bringing him recognition throughout the country, especially in military circles. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thanked him for suggesting the use of the term "liberation," rather than "invasion," of Europe. Military commanders such as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Generals George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, and Dwight D. Eisenhower sought his friendship and advice. Eisenhower said Freeman first convinced him to think seriously about running for the presidency. In 1958, Freeman was posthumously awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for his seven-volume biography of George Washington. In 1955, the Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters honored Freeman by creating the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for public service in radio journalism. Eric Foner is more critical of Freeman, whose biography of Lee, Foner calls a "hagiography," criticizing its lack of nuance and the limited attention paid to Lee's relationship to slavery. In 2021, some students and faculty at the University of Richmond, where Freeman served as Rector for seven years, criticized the University board of trustees for refusing to remove Freeman's name from a campus building, although he had "supported racial segregation, opposed interracial marriage and promoted racist concepts underlying the eugenics movement." The “greatest inheritance,” Freeman once said, was “clean blood, right-thinking ancestry.” Honors and awards 1935 Pulitzer Prize for R. E. Lee: A Biography (4 volumes) 1951 best news commentary over larger radio stations from Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters 1958 Pulitzer Prize (posthumous) for George Washington: A Biography (6 volumes) Douglas S. Freeman High School in Henrico County named in his honor University of Richmond Freeman Hall named in his honor Virginia Historical Marker Q-6-17 , located on Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia commemorates Freeman's life and work Bibliography A Calendar of Confederate Papers (1908) Lee's Dispatches to Jefferson Davis, 1862–1865 (1915) R. E. Lee: A Biography (4 volumes) (1934–1935). vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, and abridged version by Richard Harwell The Cornerstones of Stratford: Address at the Dedication of Stratford, October 12, 1935 (1935) The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writings of Confederate History (1939) Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command Volume 1: Manassas to Malvern Hill (abridged ed. by Stephen W. Sears) (1942) Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command Volume 2: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville (1943) Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command Volume 3: Gettysburg to Appomattox (1944) George Washington Volume 1: Young Washington (1948) George