Richard White (historian)

Richard White (born May 28, 1947 in New York City ) is a historian at Stanford University . Among other things, he deals with environmental history and the history of the Indians of North America .

Life

White grew up near Los Angeles and, according to his own statements, came to the science of history rather by chance when he was committed to the fishing rights of the Indians in the late 1960s . He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969 , a master's degree in 1972 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington . In 1976 White received his first professorship at Michigan State University , from 1983 he was professor at the University of Utah , from 1990 at the University of Washington. White has been Professor of American History since 1998 at Stanford University.

In 1995 White received a MacArthur Fellowship , in 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2016 to the American Philosophical Society . In 2006/2007 he was President of the Organization of American Historians .

White's books have received multiple awards. In 1992 he received the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 and 2011 the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and in 2012 again the Francis Parkman Prize for Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America . He was also a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for both fonts .

Fonts (selection)

• Land Use, Environment, and Social Change in a Western County, Island County, Washington, 1790-1940 , 1980
• The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees and Navajos 1983
• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region 1650-1815 , 1991
• "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West , 1991
• With Peter Nabakov, Jay Miller et al .: The Native Americans , 1993
• With James Grossman and Patricia Limerick: The frontier in American culture , 1994
• The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River , 1995
• Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past , 1998
• With John M. Findlay (Ed.): Power and place in the North American West , 1999
• Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America , 2011
• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 , 2017

Web links

• Richard White and curriculum vitae (Microsoft Word document; 37 kB; as of September 2014) at Stanford University (stanford.edu)
• Jared Farmer: Richard White, annotated bibliography (PDF; 127 kB; as of 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ White, Richard, 1947–… In: snaccooperative.org. SNAC, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Richard White. In: search.amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed October 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Richard White. In: macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 14, 2018 . 
5. ^ Past Officers. In: oah.org. Organization of American Historians, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
6. ^ Albert J. Beveridge Award Recipients. In: historians.org. American Historical Association , accessed October 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ 1992: Richard White, The Middle Ground (Cambridge University Press). In: sah.columbia.edu. Society of American Historians , accessed October 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ 2012: Richard White, Railroaded (WW Norton). In: sah.columbia.edu. Society of American Historians , accessed October 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists. In: pulitzer.org. October 17, 1991, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
10. ↑ 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .