Howard Roberts Lamar (born November 18, 1923) is an American

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of the

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. In addition to being Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

since 1994, he served as

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from 1992 to 1993.Gould, Lewis L. (2000). "Howard Roberts Lamar" in ''Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000,'' pp 84-97.

Biography

He was born in 1923 in

Tuskegee, Alabama Tuskegee () is a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States. It was founded and laid out in 1833 by General Thomas Simpson Woodward, a Creek War veteran under Andrew Jackson, and made the county seat that year. It was incorporated in 1843. ...

, US, and was drawn into history in part by his rich family history which includes two

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justices and the second president of the

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. He received his

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from

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

in 1945 and his

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from Yale University in 1951. He was president of Yale from 1992 to 1993, and since 1994 has been a

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of History Emeritus at Yale. His prominent students include

Lewis L. Gould Lewis Ludlow Gould (born September 21, 1939) is an American historian and author. He is Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor Emeritus in American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a specialist on 20th century American political h ...

. The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University was established in his honor.

Bibliography

*''Dakota Territory, 1861–1889'' *''The Cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845–1847'' *''The Far Southwest, 1846–1912: A Territorial History'' *''The Trader on the American Frontier: Myth’s Victim'' *''The New Encyclopedia of the American West'' *'' Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography''

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References

* Gould, Lewis L. (2000). "Howard Roberts Lamar" in ''Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000'' (Robert Allen Rutland, ed.). Columbia:

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. * Kelley, Brooks Mather. (1999)
''Yale: A History.''
New Haven:

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.
OCLC 810552

External links

* Howard Roberts Lamar Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamar, Howard R. 1923 births Living people People from Tuskegee, Alabama Presidents of Yale University Yale Sterling Professors 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the American West American male non-fiction writers Emory University alumni Yale University alumni

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