Bancroft Prize
1回登壇
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第9回（1956年 第2回開催） Winner
Richard Nelson Current
リチャード・ネルソン・カレント
Richard Nelson Current
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1912-10-05 （Colorado City, Colorado, U.S.）
- 死没
- 2012-10-26 （Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.） 100歳
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
経歴
- 職業
- historian, university professor, translator
- 活動期間
- 1934年〜2012年
- 所属
- Rutgers University, Hamilton College (New York), Northern Michigan University, Lawrence University, Mills College, Salisbury State University, University of Illinois, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 影響を受けた人物
- William B. Hesseltine
- 影響を与えた人物
- Lincoln scholars, generations of American historians
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oberlin College | — | Department of History | B.A. | 〜1934 | United States |
| The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) | — | — | M.A. | 〜1935 | United States |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | — | Department of History | Ph.D. | 〜1940 | United States |
Oberlin College
Department of History
学位:
B.A.
期間:
〜1934
卒業年:
1934
国:
United States
Received B.A.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University)
学位:
M.A.
期間:
〜1935
卒業年:
1935
国:
United States
Received M.A.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Department of History
学位:
Ph.D.
期間:
〜1940
卒業年:
1940
国:
United States
Received Ph.D.; studied under William B. Hesseltine.
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Bancroft Prize | Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure (with James G. Randall) | — | Columbia University | 受賞 |
| 1959 | Fulbright Professor in Munich | — | — | Fulbright Program | 任命 |
| 1960 | O. Max Gardner Prize | — | — | University of North Carolina | 受賞 |
| 1962 | Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History | — | — | Oxford University | 任命 |
| 1977 | George Banta Award | — | — | Wisconsin Library Association | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Notable Wisconsin Authors | — | — | Wisconsin Library Association | 選出 |
| 1989 | Logan Hay Medal | — | — | Abraham Lincoln Association | 受賞 |
| 2000 | Lincoln Prize (lifetime achievement) | lifetime achievement | — | Lincoln Prize | 受賞 |
| 2000 | The Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement | — | — | The Lincoln Forum | 授与 |
Bancroft Prize
1956
対象作品:
Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure (with James G. Randall)
主催:
Columbia University
結果:
受賞
Fulbright Professor in Munich
1959
主催:
Fulbright Program
結果:
任命
O. Max Gardner Prize
1960
主催:
University of North Carolina
結果:
受賞
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History
1962
主催:
Oxford University
結果:
任命
George Banta Award
1977
主催:
Wisconsin Library Association
結果:
受賞
Notable Wisconsin Authors
1988
主催:
Wisconsin Library Association
結果:
選出
Logan Hay Medal
1989
主催:
Abraham Lincoln Association
結果:
受賞
Lincoln Prize (lifetime achievement)
2000
対象作品:
lifetime achievement
主催:
Lincoln Prize
結果:
受賞
The Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement
2000
主催:
The Lincoln Forum
結果:
授与
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
The Lincoln Nobody Knows
1958年 biography / historyAn influential study of Abraham Lincoln that probes apparent contradictions in his life and thought and emphasizes his moral and intellectual growth.
Lincoln studiesrace relationspersonal growth and change
Lincoln and the First Shot
1963年 historical analysisExamines Lincoln's role and the political-military situation around the start of the Civil War, aiming to dispel myths surrounding the assassination and related conspiracies.
Civil Warpolitics and militaryhistorical revision
Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure
1955年 biography / historyThe fourth volume of James G. Randall's biography of Lincoln, completed in part by Current; focuses on Lincoln's presidency and leadership.
presidencyleadershipAmerican political history
Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition
1942年 biographyA biography of 19th-century politician Thaddeus Stevens, focusing on his life and political ambition.
19th-century politicsReconstructionleadership study
The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It
1954年 history of technologyA history of the typewriter, tracing its invention, development, and the people involved.
history of technologyindustrialization
Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885–1949 (translator)
2003年 translation / literatureA collection of Knut Hamsun's essays and stories about America (1885–1949), translated by Current.
translationcross-cultural perspectives
全著作
- Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition (1942)
- Pine Logs and Politics: A Life of Philetus Sawyer, 1816–1900 (1950)
- The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It (1954)
- Secretary Stimson: A Study in Statecraft (1954)
- Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism (1955)
- Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure (1955) (with James G. Randall)
- The Lincoln Nobody Knows (1958)
- American History: A Survey (1961) (with Frank Freidel and T. Harry Williams)
- Lincoln and the First Shot (1963)
- John C. Calhoun (1963)
- Three Carpetbag Governors (1967)
- Essentials of American History (1972, 1980) (with others)
- Wisconsin: The Civil War Era 1848–1873 (1976)
- Wisconsin: A Bicentennial History (1977)
- Unity, Ethnicity, and Abraham Lincoln (1978)
- Speaking of Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Meaning for Our Times (1983)
- Arguing with Historians: Essays on the Historical and the Unhistorical (1987)
- Those Terrible Carpetbaggers (1988)
- Lincoln, the Constitution, and Presidential Leadership (1989)
- Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy (1992)
- Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (editor, 1993)
- What Is an American? Abraham Lincoln and "Multiculturalism" (1993)
- Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light (1997) (with Marcia Ewing Current)
- Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885–1949 (2003) (translator)
作家による翻訳
- Knut Hamsun translations and edition (2003)
作風・主題
- 文体
- scholarly and analytical proseempirical, primary-source driven approachaccessible biographical narrative
- 頻出モチーフ
- Lincoln's moral and intellectual growthunity and ethnicityexamination of race relations and freedom
健康
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Parkinson's disease晩年Health declined in later years; recorded cause of death.
評価・遺産
Called the "Dean of Lincoln Scholars," Current made major contributions to Lincoln studies, won major academic prizes including the Bancroft Prize, published numerous works and translations, and his papers are held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
関連学会
- Southern Historical Association (president 1975)
資料所蔵先
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Rare Book Room (Richard N. Current papers)
引用
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The most remarkable thing about him was his tremendous power for growth.
出典: The Lincoln Nobody Knows (1958) (1958年)
豆知識
- Died in 2012 at age 100.
- Lectured internationally, including in Antarctica.
- First wife Rose Bonar died in 1983 after 45 years of marriage; he married Marcia Ewing in 1984.
- Late in life he translated and edited works by Knut Hamsun.