Richard White (historian)

Richard White (born May 28, 1947) is an American historian, a past 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, University of Utah, and Michigan State University. He received his bachelors degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. [ [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/white_richard.html Stanford University, Department of History, faculty] , accessed October 8, 2007]

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).
*"". 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.

Awards

* [http://www.mnstate.edu/schwartz/parkman.htm 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
* [http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/CoreyWinner.htm Albert B. Corey Prize] for best book on U.S.-Canadian history ("The Middle Ground"), 1992
* [http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/rawley/winners.html James A. Rawley Prize] for book on history of race relations in the United States ("The Middle Ground"), 1992
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?type=f&year=1992&FormsButton2=Retrieve Pulitizer Prize Nominated Finalist] ("The Middle Ground"), 1992
* [http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/e_awar_winn_nonfic.html Western Heritage Award] for "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own", 1992
*MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995

Notes

External links

* [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/humsci/external/faculty/endowed_byrne.html Faculty page at Stanford]
* [http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1990a.html Richard White and the New Western History]
* [http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/white00.pdf "The Problem with Purity" -Transcript of a lecture delivered at UC-Davis on March 10, 1999]
* [http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.asp?rid=875 Video of interview with Stanford's Interchange Program (via Research Channel)]
* [http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~rpekarek/gwhitewest.html Book Notes and Summary of White's "Your Misfortune..." text]