Richard F. Nation
Professor
History and Philosophy; Environmental Science and Society (ENVI) Interdisciplinary Program
701P Pray-Harrold
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
- MA, University of Michigan
- BA, Wesleyan University
Interests and Expertise
- 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.
- Professor Nation teaches a wide variety of classes, from the Age of Jackson to the Old South and American environmental history.
Courses
- HIST 123 The United States to 1877
- HIST 416 American Environmental History
- HIST 541 The United States, 1825–1860: Ferment and Reform
Publications and Presentations
- "The Politics of Slavery," Indiana's Civil War 150th Commemoration - 2011–2015, Indiana Historical Bureau.
- Co-editor, Indiana’s War: The Civil War in Documents (Ohio University Press, 2009).
- 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.