Richard White (historian)

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Richard White (born 1947) is an American historian, currently the President of the Organization of American Historians, and the author of influential books on the American West, Native American history, and environmental history. He is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, having previously taught at the University of Washington and the University of Utah.

[edit] Works

• Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington. University of Washington Press, 1979. ISBN 0-295-95691-7 (hardback); ISBN 0-295-97143-6 (1992 paperback).
• The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. University of Nebraska Press, 1983. ISBN 0-8032-4722-2; ISBN 0-8032-9724-6 (1988 paperback).
• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-521-37104-X (hardback); ISBN 0-521-42460-7 (paperback).
• "It's Your Misfortune and None of my Own": A History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8061-2366-4.
• The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994-January 7, 1995, with Patricia Nelson Limerick, edited by James Grossman. University of California, 1994. ISBN 0-520-08843-3; ISBN 0-520-08844-1 (paperback).
• The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. ISBN 0-8090-1583-8.
• Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. ISBN 0-8090-8072-9.

[edit] Awards

• Francis Parkman Prize for best book on American history (The Middle Ground), 1992
• Albert J. Beveridge Award for best English-language book on American history (The Middle Ground), 1992
• Albert B. Corey Prize for best book on U.S.-Canadian history (The Middle Ground), 1992
• James A. Rawley Prize for book on history of race relations in the United States (The Middle Ground), 1992
• Western Heritage Award for "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own", 1992
• MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995

[edit] External links

• Faculty page at Stanford
• Richard White and the New Western History
• "The Problem with Purity" -Transcript of a lecture delivered at UC-Davis on March 10, 1999
• Video of interview with Stanford's Interchange Program (via Research Channel)
• Book Notes and Summary of White's Your Misfortune... text