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Richard F. Nation
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Ph.D., University of Michigan
A.M., University of Michigan
B.A., Wesleyan University
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701-P Pray-Harrold |
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(734) 487-0053
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richard.nation@emich.edu
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| Biography:
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Richard Nation specializes in the social and cultural history of the rural Midwest. His research is focused on the state of Indiana. He is currently at work on a history of vigilantism and lynching in that state from the Civil War to World War I. He is a member of the editorial board of the Indiana Magazine of History.
Professor Nation teaches a wide variety of classes, from the Age of Jackson to the Old South and American intellectual and cultural history. He has offered classes in American environmental history as well. With interests in theory and methodology, he has offered the class on Researching and Writing History for undergraduates and Historiography for graduate students.
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Co-editor, Indiana’s War: The Civil War in Documents (Ohio University Press, forthcoming).
A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825, American Antiquarian Society.
At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).
“Violence and the Rights of African Americans in Civil War-Era Indiana: The Case of James Hays,” Indiana Magazine of History 100 (2004): 215-30.
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