Lamar, Howard Roberts

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LAMAR, Howard Roberts

LAMAR, Howard Roberts. American, b. 1923. Genres: History, Reference. Career: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Instructor in History, 1945-46; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Assistant in Instruction, 1948-49; Yale University, New Haven, CT, Instructor, 1949-54, Assistant Professor, 1954-59, Associate Professor, 1959-64, Professor of History, 1964-98, Dean of Yale College, 1979-85, Acting President, 1992-93, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, 1998-. Publications: Dakota Territory, 1861-1889: A Study of Frontier Politics, 1956, rev. ed., 1997; The Far Southwest, 1850-1912: A Political History of the Territories of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, 1966, rev. ed., 2000; Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1991; New Encyclopedia of the American West, 1998. EDITOR: The Cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845-1847: A Sailor's View of the Naval Conquest of California, by Joseph T. Downey, 1958; Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, 1977; (with L. Thompson) The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared, 1981. Address: Dept. of History, Yale University, PO Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.

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