Richard Nelson Current (1912–2012)
Autor de The Lincoln Nobody Knows
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Obras de Richard Nelson Current
Words That Made American History: Volume One — Editor — 4 copias
Words that Made American History Since the Civil War (Second Edition) (Selected Readings) (1965) 2 copias
Unity, ethnicity & Abraham Lincoln 2 copias
Essentials of American History 1 copia
American History: A Summary 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth (1995) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
Daniel Webster, "The Completest Man": Documents from The Papers of Daniel Webster (1990) — Contribuidor — 17 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Current, Richard Nelson
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1912-10-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2012-10-26
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Colorado City, Colorado, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Oberlin College
Tufts University
University of Wisconsin (PhD|1940) - Ocupaciones
- Professor of History, UNC-Greensboro
- Organizaciones
- Southern Historical Association (president | 1975)
- Premios y honores
- Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1998)
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Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism por Richard N. Current
1/22/23
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.… (más)
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