Daniel K. Richter Explained

Daniel K. Richter
Birth Name:	Daniel Karl Richter
Birth Date:	15 October 1954
Birth Place:	Erie, Pennsylvania
Education:	Columbia University
Occupation:	Historian
Notable Works:	Facing East From Indian Country, Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

Daniel Karl Richter (born October 15, 1954) is an American historian specializing in early American history, especially colonial North America and Native American history before 1800. He is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His book Facing East from Indian Country was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.

Life and career

Daniel Karl Richter was born on October 15, 1954, in Erie, Pennsylvania.^[1] He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1984. Before coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Richter taught at the College of William & Mary and Dickinson College.

Awards

• 1993 Ray Allen Billington Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 1993 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 2001–02 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History, for Facing East from Indian Country
• 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Facing East from Indian Country^[2]

Works

• The Lords Proprietors: Feudal Dreams in English America, 1660-1689, under contract with Harvard University Press.
• Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). .
• Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (Harvard University Press, 2011; paperback 2013). .
• Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Harvard University Press, 2001; paperback 2003). .
• The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (University of North Carolina Press, 1992). .
• Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, co-editor with William Pencak (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). .
• Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800, co-editor with James H. Merrell (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003). .

Notes and References

1. Book: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2004. 978-0-7876-9202-5. Peacock. Scot. new revision series. 123. 342–343. Richter, Daniel K(arl) 1954-. 0275-7176. 527378530. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/richter-daniel-karl-1954.
2. Web site: Finalist: Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. live. 2021-11-07. Pulitzer Prizes. https://web.archive.org/web/20161001233052/http://www.pulitzer.org:80/finalists/daniel-k-richter . 2016-10-01 .