Richard Nelson Current (1912–2012)
Auteur van The Lincoln Nobody Knows
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Born in Colorado City, Colorado, on October 5, 1912, Richard Nelson Current received his B.A. from Oberlin College and went on to earn an M.S. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Ph.D. in history (1939) at the University of Wisconsin. Current taught at a number of toon meer institutions, including Rutgers University, Lawrence College, Mills College, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin before becoming Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1966--1983). He also taught in Japan, India, the Netherlands, Australia, Chile, and Germany. He was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. Current wrote about historical subjects ranging from the invention of the typewriter to American diplomacy. In 2000, he won the Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement in the area of best non-fiction historical work pertaining to the American Civil War . Current died on October 26, 2012 at age 100. He is buried in Greensboro, NC. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Richard Nelson Current
Words That Made American History, Vol 2: Since the Civil War [abridged] (1978) — Redacteur — 16 exemplaren
Words That Made American History: Volume One — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
Unity, ethnicity & Abraham Lincoln 2 exemplaren
Words that Made American History Since the Civil War (Second Edition) (Selected Readings) (1965) 2 exemplaren
Essentials of American History 1 exemplaar
A history of the United States : to 1877 1 exemplaar
American History: A Summary 1 exemplaar
Why the North won the civil war : essays 1 exemplaar
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"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth (1995) — Medewerker — 35 exemplaren
Daniel Webster, "The Completest Man": Documents from The Papers of Daniel Webster (1990) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Current, Richard Nelson
- Geboortedatum
- 1912-10-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2012-10-26
- Geslacht
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- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Colorado City, Colorado, USA
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- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Opleiding
- Oberlin College
Tufts University
University of Wisconsin (PhD|1940) - Beroepen
- Professor of History, UNC-Greensboro
- Organisaties
- Southern Historical Association (president | 1975)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1998)
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Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism door Richard N. Current
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A very nice selection of important writings by Lincoln that demonstrate some of his major political ideas and political philosophies. A nice, portable edition that provides quick and easy access to primary source material on an extremely consequential historical figure.
Has some very interesting information I didn't know much about, but also has some very questionable information and viewpoints he goes off in a titrate about so you question the validity of the new information. Covers two haphazard points of view, not necessarily apposing and you wonder what was the point comparison he is trying to make, thus some new view points to add to my research.
2352 Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, by Richard Nelson Current (read 25 Dec 1990) This is a 1988 book by a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who has written a lot on American history but of whom I had never previously heard. This book is a workmanlike account of the careers of ten carpetbaggers. The book hopped from career to career and then back again, which really made the book too diffused. But I am thoroughly sold on the thesis that Reconstruction was not a bad time for the South except as it was made such by the South's racism.… (meer)
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