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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Richard Nelson Current</b> (* <a href="5._Oktober" title="5. Oktober">5. Oktober</a> <a href="1912" title="1912">1912</a> in Colorado City, <a href="Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>; † <a href="26._Oktober" title="26. Oktober">26. Oktober</a> <a href="2012" title="2012">2012</a> in <a href="Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>) war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Historiker" title="Historiker">Historiker</a>.
</p><p>Current studierte am <a href="Oberlin_College" title="Oberlin College">Oberlin College</a> sowie an der <a href="Fletcher_School" title="Fletcher School">Fletcher School</a> der <a href="Tufts_University" title="Tufts University">Tufts University</a> und wurde 1940 an der <a href="University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> in Geschichte <a href="Promotion_(Doktor)" title="Promotion (Doktor)">promoviert</a>. Er lehrte an der <a href="Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University">Rutgers University</a>, dem <a href="Hamilton_College_(New_York)" title="Hamilton College (New York)">Hamilton College</a>, dem <a href="Mills_College" title="Mills College">Mills College</a>, der <a href="University_of_North_Carolina_at_Greensboro" title="University of North Carolina at Greensboro">University of North Carolina at Greensboro</a>, der University of Wisconsin-Madison und anderen Universitäten.
</p><p>Er ist insbesondere als Historiker von <a href="Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> bekannt und galt hier mit <a href="Don_E._Fehrenbacher" title="Don E. Fehrenbacher">Don E. Fehrenbacher</a> und <a href="David_Herbert_Donald" title="David Herbert Donald">David Herbert Donald</a> als führendes Mitglied einer Generation von Historikern, die sich kritischer und objektiver mit Lincoln auseinandersetzten, beginnend mit dem vierten Band der von <a href="James_G._Randall" title="James G. Randall">James G. Randall</a> begonnenen Lincoln-Biografie 1955 (Randall starb vor der Vollendung des Werks 1953). Er veröffentlichte zum <a href="Sezessionskrieg" title="Sezessionskrieg">Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg</a>, über die Lokalgeschichte von <a href="Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a>, die Geschichte der Schreibmaschine, <a href="Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a>, <a href="John_C._Calhoun" title="John C. Calhoun">John C. Calhoun</a>, <a href="Henry_L._Stimson" title="Henry L. Stimson">Henry L. Stimson</a> und er untersuchte in einem Buch die Legende der <a href="Carpetbagger" title="Carpetbagger">Carpetbaggers</a> (Nordstaatlern, die nach gängiger Südstaatler-Meinung nach dem Bürgerkrieg als Kriegsgewinnler in die Südstaaten einfielen) an einigen Fallbeispielen neu.
</p><p>1956 erhielt er den <a href="Bancroft-Preis" title="Bancroft-Preis">Bancroft-Preis</a> (für die Lincoln-Biografie von Randall und Current) und 1998 den <a href="Bruce_Catton_Prize" title="Bruce Catton Prize">Bruce Catton Prize</a>. 1975 war er Präsident der Southern Historical Association.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften">Schriften</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition.</i> University of Wisconsin Press 1942.</li>
<li><i>Pine Logs and Politics: A Life of Philetus Sawyer, 1816–1900.</i> State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison 1950.</li>
<li><i>The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It.</i> University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1954.</li>
<li><i>Secretary Stimson: A Study in Statecraft.</i> Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1954.</li>
<li><i>Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism.</i> Little Brown, Boston 1955.</li>
<li>mit James G. Randall: <i>Lincoln the President: Midstream to the Last Full Measure.</i> University of Illinois Press 1955 (Neuausgabe 2000).</li>
<li><i>The Lincoln Nobody Knows.</i> McGraw Hill 1958 (Essays).</li>
<li>mit Frank Freidel, <a href="T._Harry_Williams" title="T. Harry Williams">T. Harry Williams</a>: <i>American History. A Survey.</i> Knopf 1961.</li>
<li><i>Lincoln and the First Shot.</i> Lippincott, Philadelphia 1963 (über <a href="Fort_Sumter" title="Fort Sumter">Fort Sumter</a> und dessen Vorgeschichte).</li>
<li><i>John C. Calhoun.</i> Washington Square Press 1963.</li>
<li>mit Alexander DeConde, Harris L. Dante: <i>United States History.</i> Scott Foresman 1967.</li>
<li><i>Three Carpetbag Governors.</i> Louisiana State University Press 1967.</li>
<li>mit Frank Freidel, T. Harry Williams: <i>Essentials of American History.</i> Knopf, 1972.</li>
<li>mit A. DeConde, H. L. Dante: <i>United States History: A World Power.</i> Scott Foresman 1974.</li>
<li>mit A. DeConde, H. L. Dante: <i>United States History: Search for Freedom.</i> Scott Foresman 1974.</li>
<li><i>Wisconsin: The Civil War Era 1848–1873.</i> 1976.</li>
<li><i>Wisconsin: A Bicentennial History.</i> Norton, New York 1977.</li>
<li>mit Gerald J. Goodwin: <i>A History of the United States.</i> Knopf 1980.</li>
<li><i>Speaking of Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Meaning for Our Times.</i> University of Illinois Press 1983.</li>
<li><i>Northernizing the South.</i> University of Georgia Press 1983.</li>
<li><i>Arguing with Historians: Essays on the Historical and the Unhistorical.</i> Wesleyan University Press 1987.</li>
<li><i>Those Terrible Carpetbaggers. A reinterpretation.</i> Oxford University Press 1988.</li>
<li><i>Lincoln, the Constitution, and Presidential Leadership.</i> Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin 1989.</li>
<li>mit anderen: <i>Daniel Webster, the Completest Man.</i> University Press of New England 1990.</li>
<li><i>Phi Beta Kappa in American Life: The First Two Hundred Years.</i> 1990.</li>
<li><i>Lincoln’s Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy.</i> Northeastern University Press, Boston 1992.</li>
<li>Herausgeber: <i>Encyclopedia of the Confederacy.</i> 4 Bände, Simon and Schuster, 1993.</li>
<li><i>What Is an American? Abraham Lincoln and 'Multiculturalism'.</i> 1993.</li>
<li>mit anderen: <i>Lincoln on Democracy.</i> 1994.</li>
<li>mit Marcia Ewing Current: <i>Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light.</i> Northeastern University Press 1997 (über eine Tänzerin und Erneuerin von Theater-Ausleuchtung, geschrieben mit seiner Frau).</li>
<li><i>Wisconsin: a history.</i> University of Illinois Press 2001.</li>
<li>als Übersetzer und Herausgeber: <i>Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885–1949.</i> 2003.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/us/richard-n-current-civil-war-historian-dies-at-100.html?_r=0">Nachruf in der New York Times, 4. November 2012</a></li></ul>
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