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Richard N. Current
American historian (1912–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Nelson Current (October 5, 1912 – October 26, 2012) was an American historian, called "the Dean of Lincoln Scholars", best known for The Lincoln Nobody Knows (1958), and Lincoln and the First Shot (1963).[1]
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Born | Richard Nelson Current (1912-10-05)October 5, 1912 Colorado City, Colorado, U.S. |
Died | October 26, 2012(2012-10-26) (aged 100) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy University of Wisconsin–Madison Oberlin College |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Race relations |
Institutions | Rutgers University Hamilton College Northern Michigan University Lawrence University University of Illinois University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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