Richard Current
Richard Nelson Current (born October 5, 1912 in Colorado City , Colorado , † October 26, 2012 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American historian .
Current studied at Oberlin College and the Fletcher School of Tufts University and received a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1940 . He has taught at Rutgers University , Hamilton College , Mills College , University of North Carolina at Greensboro , University of Wisconsin-Madison, and other universities.
He is best known as the historian of Abraham Lincoln and was considered here with Don E. Fehrenbacher and David Herbert Donald as the leader of a generation of historians who dealt more critically and objectively with Lincoln, beginning with the fourth volume of the Lincoln begun by James G. Randall -Biography 1955 (Randall died before completing the work in 1953). He published on the American Civil War , local history of Wisconsin , the history of the typewriter, Daniel Webster , John C. Calhoun , Henry L. Stimson and he examined in a book the legend of the carpet excavators (Northerners who, according to popular southerners opinion, after the Civil War in the southern states invaded as war profiteers) in some case studies.
In 1956 he received the Bancroft Prize (for the Lincoln biography of Randall and Current) and in 1998 the Bruce Catton Prize . In 1975 he was president of the Southern Historical Association.
Fonts
- Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition, University of Wisconsin Press 1942.
- Pine Logs and Politics: A Life of Philetus Sawyer, 1816-1900, Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin 1950.
- The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It, Urbana, University of Illinois Press 1954.
- Secretary Stimson: A Study in Statecraft, Rutgers University Press 1954.
- Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism, Boston: Little Brown 1955.
- with JG Randall: Lincoln the President: Midstream to the Last Full Measure , 1955, University of Illinois Press 2000
- The Lincoln Nobody Knows, McGraw Hill 1958 (essays)
- Those Terrible Carpetbaggers . A reinterpretation, Oxford University Press 1988.
- with David Herbert Donald and others: Why the North Won the Civil War , Louisiana State University Press 1960
- Lincoln and the First Shot, Philadelphia: Lippincott 1963 (on Fort Sumter and its history)
- John C. Calhoun, Washington Square Press 1963.
- Three Carpetbag Governors, Louisiana State University Press 1967.
- with Alexander DeConde, Harris L. Dante: United States History , Scott Foresman 1967.
- with other Essentials of American History , Random House 1972 (several volumes)
- with A. DeConde, HL Dante: United States History: A World Power , Scott Foresman 1974.
- with A. DeConde, HL Dante: United States History: Search for Freedom , Scott Foresman 1974.
- with Frank Freidel, T. Harry Williams A History of the United States , Knopf, 2nd edition 1964
- same American history. A Survey , Knopf 1961
- Wisconsin: The Civil War Era 1848-1873, 1976.
- Wisconsin: A Bicentennial History, New York: Norton 1977.
- Wisconsin: a history , University of Illinois Press 2001
- with Gerald J. Goodwin: A History of the United States , Knopf 1980.
- Speaking of Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Meaning for Our Times, University of Illinois Press 1983.
- Northernizing the South, University of Georgia Press 1983.
- Arguing with Historians: Essays on the Historical and the Unhistorical, Wesleyan University Press 1987.
- Lincoln, the Constitution, and Presidential Leadership, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin 1989.
- with others: Daniel Webster, the Completest Man , University Press of New England 1990.
- Phi Beta Kappa in American Life: The First Two Hundred Years, 1990.
- Editor: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy , Simon and Schuster, 4 volumes, 1993.
- What is an American? Abraham Lincoln and 'Multiculturalism', 1993.
- Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy, Boston, Northeastern University Press 1992.
- with others: Lincoln on Democracy , 1994.
- with Marcia Ewing Current: Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light , Northeastern University Press 1997 (about a dancer and innovator of theater lighting, written with his wife)
- as translator and editor: Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949 , 2003.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Current, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Current, Richard Nelson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colorado City , Colorado |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2012 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts |