Richard Slotkin

Richard Slotkin
Born (1942-11-08) November 8, 1942
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
OccupationsCultural critic, historian, novelist
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsWesleyan University

Richard Sidney Slotkin (born November 8, 1942)[1] is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and, since 2010, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2][3] He is also Fellow of the Society of American Historians. [4] Slotkin writes novels, predominantly historical ones, alongside his historical research, and uses the process of writing the novels to clarify and refine his historical work.[5]

Education and career

Richard Sidney Slotkin was born on November 8, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.A. degree from Brooklyn College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1967.[3][6]

He started teaching at Wesleyan University in 1966 and helped establish the school's American studies and film studies programs.[7] He remained at Wesleyan until his retirement in 2009.[6]

Awards

Regeneration Through Violence received the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association as the Best Book in American History (1973) and was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1974.[8][9] Gunfighter Nation was a National Book Award Finalist in 1993.[10] In 1995, Slotkin received the American Studies Association's Mary C. Turpie Award for his contributions to teaching and program-building.[11] His novel Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln won the 2000 Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction.[12]

In 1976, he received an honorary Master of Arts degree in art education from Wesleyan University.[6]

His 2024 book A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.[13]

Works

  • Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (Wesleyan University Press, 1973)
  • The Crater: A Novel of the Civil War (Atheneum, 1980)
  • Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890, (Atheneum, 1985)
  • The Return of Henry Starr (Atheneum, 1988)
  • Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Atheneum, 1992)
  • Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln (Henry Holt and Company, 2000)
  • Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (Henry Holt and Company, 2005)
  • No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 (Random House, 2009)
  • The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012)[14]
  • Greenhorns: Stories (Leapfrog Press, 2018)
  • A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America (Belknap Press, 2024)

References

  1. ↑ "Slotkin, Richard 1942–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Richard S. Slotkin". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 2, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Richard S. Slotkin". Faculty. Wesleyan University. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Membership List". Society of American Historians. Columbia University.
  5. ↑ Slotkin, Richard (June–September 2005). "Fiction for the Purposes of History". Rethinking History. 9 (2/3): 221–236. doi:10.1080/13642520500149152. S2CID 145764187.
  6. 1 2 3 "Slotkin, Richard, 1942- | Archives at Yale". archives.yale.edu. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Richard Slotkin | Guests | BillMoyers.com". BillMoyers.com. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Albert J. Beveridge Award Recipients | AHA". American Historical Association. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Regeneration Through Violence". National Book Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America". National Book Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  11. ↑ Press, Berkeley Electronic. "SelectedWorks - Richard Slotkin". works.bepress.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
  12. ↑ "The Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction". Louisiana State University. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  13. ↑ "The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist". The New Yorker. September 12, 2024. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
  14. ↑ Swansburg, John (August 4, 2012). "The Civil War's Most Chicken General". Slate Magazine. Retrieved May 3, 2021.


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