Richard N. Current

Richard Nelson Current (born October 5, 1912, in Colorado City, Colorado) is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from Oberlin College, from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with an M.A., and from the University of Wisconsin with a Ph.D. in history in 1940. He taught at Rutgers University, Hamilton College, Northern Michigan University, Lawrence University, University of Illinois, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Wisconsin. He is retired and living in Massachusetts.^[1][2]

Awards

• 1956 Bancroft Prize
• 1977 George Banta Award from the Wisconsin Library Association
• 1988 Notable Wisconsin Authors
• Fulbright lecturer

Works

• "Vidal's 'Lincoln': An Exchange", The New York Review of Books, August 18, 1988
• "How Stimson Meant to 'Manoeuver' the Japanese", Mississippi Valley Historical Review, June 1953

• Why the North won the Civil War: essays by Richard N. Current , David (David Herbert) Donald, Richard Nelson Current, Louisiana State University Press, 1960
• The Lincoln nobody knows. Macmillan. 1963. ISBN 978-0-8090-0059-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=N60xglyQeVsC&pg=PP5&dq=Richard+N.+Current&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q=Richard%20N.%20Current&f=false. 
• James Garfield Randall, Richard Nelson Current (1997). Lincoln the President: Midstream to the last full measure. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80755-8. 
• James Garfield Randall, Richard Nelson (1999). Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06872-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=zSdvTJt0BpoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+N.+Current&lr=&cd=17#v=onepage&q=Richard%20N.%20Current&f=false.  (reprint)
• James M. McPherson, ed. (2001). "What is an American? Abraham Lincoln and Multiculturalism". University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06981-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=VnJZAJSNCUsC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=Richard+N.+Current&source=bl&ots=7-a5cjHHBm&sig=f2PAmfim9aGlKt0YdQzIGxB9h6s&hl=en&ei=TftVS8e7FJL2NfWvlYoJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CBcQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=Richard%20N.%20Current&f=false.  (reprint)

References

External links

• Richard N. Current | University of Illinois Archives

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