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Professor
Office: Herter 636
Telephone: (413) 545-6764
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: llr@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Davis (1968).
Field(s) of interest: 19th Century U.S.
Graduate Courses Offered:
American Historiography through the Civil War (Not Online)
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Richards, also a former Chairman of the Department, won
the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Prize
in 1970 for his "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition
Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970). He has written a textbook
on the Jacksonian era, The Advent of American Democracy (1977),
co-edited a collection of documents on American History, The
American Record (1982, 1987, 1995), and written The Life
and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (1986), a finalist
for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography. His book The Slave
Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000)
won second place in the prestigious Lincoln Prize Competition. HIs
most recent book, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's
Final Battle, was published in 2002. He is presently at work
on a book on the California Gold Rush.
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