Richard Slotkin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 281120 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Slotkin |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Slotkin |
| FIRMA | SLOTKIN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 303 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
America at a Crossroads
A Great Disorder
Great Disorder
Popular Culture Icons
The myth of the frontier is the oldest and most durable of American national myths. Like all nation‐state mythologies, its function is to provide a historical account and an ideological justification of national development, and a repertoire of exemplary fables – based on historical events – that offer plausible precedents for dealing with contemporary crises. The myth recognizes that the United States developed as a settler state, which grew geo…
Thinking Mythologically
While preparing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, President Bush invited his advisors to screenings of Black Hawk Down (2002). “Bush . . . told his aides that America’s hasty exit from Somalia after 18 soldiers died in the 1993 raid made famous in the movie . . . emboldened America’s terrorist enemies” to attack us on September 11. This study explains the ideological force of Black Hawk Down by framing it as the culmination of developments in American n…
Myth of the Frontier
The Myth of the Frontier is the oldest American national myth. Like all nation‐state mythologies, its function is to provide a historical account and an ideological justification of national development, and a repertoire of exemplary fables—based on historical events—which offer plausible precedents for dealing with contemporary crises. The myth recognizes that the United States developed as a settler state, which grew geographically and increase…
Mythogenesis
Myths are stories drawn from a society's history, which have acquired through persistent usage the power of symbolizing that society's ideology and of explicating the meaning and direction of its history. A society's mythology is, in effect, its memory system. Myths usually develop around cultural crises or moments of collective shock or trauma, when events challenge the belief system on which the society has operated up to that point. The most d…
Mythogenesis
Myths are stories drawn from a society's history, which have acquired through persistent usage the power of symbolizing that society's ideology, and explicating the meaning and direction of its history. A society's mythology is, in effect, its memory system. Myths usually develop around cultural crises or moments of collective shock or trauma, when events challenge the belief system on which the society has hitherto operated. The most durable myt…
Lost Battalions
Constructed as a military history of two American army regiments of World War I, Slotkin's narrative functions as an inquiry into the soldiers'racial and ethnic backgrounds. Both units were raised in New York City: one consisted of black soldiers, the other of recent immigrants. That description only begins the contextual social spectrum Slotkin covers in arguing his thesis: that white racial conceptions of Americanism after the war thwarted the …
Fiction for the Purposes of History
The argument most frequently made on behalf of historical fiction is that, if responsibly done, it can stimulate interest in the study of history. But I'd like to offer a stronger argument, based on my experience working in both forms: if properly understood, the writing of historical fiction can be a valuable adjunct to the work of historians in their discipline. A novel can be as accurate as a history in telling what happened, when, and how. It…
Unit Pride
Self-archived author copy of a scholarly work originally published in American Literary History (2001), made available through Wesleyan University's digital collections.
When the Eagle Screamed
When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860. By William H. Goetzmann. (Norman: University Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 146. Maps. $11.95.) Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology the American Frontier, 1600-1860. By Richard Slotkin. (Norman: University Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. 669. $24.95.) The language the Cold War dominates William H. Goetzmann's When the Eagle Screamed, breezy account American exp…
Regeneration through violence
The New Censorship
Gunfighter Nation
Gunfighter Nation
Journal Article Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America Get access Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. By Slotkin Richard. (New York: Atheneum, 1992. xii + 850 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Richard Maxwell Brown Richard Maxwell Brown University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 25,…
Gunfighter Nation
Gunfighter Nation
Journal Article Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. By Richard Slotkin. (New York: Atheneum, 1992. xii, 850 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-689-12163-6.) Get access Richard White Richard White University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1039–1041, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080422 …
The Continuity of Forms
Self-archived author copy of a scholarly work originally published in Representations (1990), made available through Wesleyan University's digital collections
Cavalier in Buckskin
Journal Article Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier Get access Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. By Utley Robert M.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. xvii + 226 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, $19.95.) Richard Slotkin Richard Slotkin Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Gunfighters and Green Berets
Research Article| May 01 1989 Gunfighters and Green Berets: The Magnificent Seven and the Myth of Counter-Insurgency Richard Slotkin Richard Slotkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (44): 65–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-44-65 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Slotkin; Gunfighters and Green Berets: The Magnificent…
Frontier Death Rattle
The Fatal Environment
The Fatal Environment
Religious Freedom or Real Estate
Regeneration through violence
The fatal environment
Gunfighter Nation
Journal Article Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. By Richard Slotkin. (New York: Atheneum, 1992. xii, 850 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-689-12163-6.) Get access Richard White Richard White University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1039–1041, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080422 …
Fiction for the Purposes of History
The argument most frequently made on behalf of historical fiction is that, if responsibly done, it can stimulate interest in the study of history. But I'd like to offer a stronger argument, based on my experience working in both forms: if properly understood, the writing of historical fiction can be a valuable adjunct to the work of historians in their discipline. A novel can be as accurate as a history in telling what happened, when, and how. It…
Nostalgia and Progress
endorse Frederick Jackson Turner's controversial lecture on Significance of the Frontier in American History when it appeared in 1893. Roosevelt greeted Turner as a colleague, and praised him for having put into shape a good deal of thought that has been floating around rather loosely. Turner was pleased to be recognized by a man who-although not yet a major political figure-was his senior as a historian, and whose definitive multivolume The Winn…
Regeneration Through Violence
Regeneration Through Violence
Narratives of Negro Crime in New England, 1675-1800
occasion of considerable social importance. Executions were public, for the possible edification of potential malefactors and the certain titillation of the mass of the observing public. In Puritan New England the task of edification was taken seriously by both clergy and government: a noted preacher of the condemned man's own choosing would be asked to visit the man in prison, and to preach to him and to the assembled multitude in church, before…
Dreams and Genocide
Regeneration through Violence
Regeneration Through Violence
Regeneration Through Violence
Journal Article Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 Get access Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860. By Slotkin Richard. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. 670 p. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Levi S. Peterson Levi S. Peterson Weber State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
The Contextual Symbol
Jews and Americans
Dreams and Genocide
Regeneration Through Violence
Narratives of Negro Crime in New England, 1675-1800
occasion of considerable social importance. Executions were public, for the possible edification of potential malefactors and the certain titillation of the mass of the observing public. In Puritan New England the task of edification was taken seriously by both clergy and government: a noted preacher of the condemned man's own choosing would be asked to visit the man in prison, and to preach to him and to the assembled multitude in church, before…
Regeneration through Violence
Regeneration Through Violence
Regeneration Through Violence
Journal Article Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 Get access Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860. By Slotkin Richard. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. 670 p. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Levi S. Peterson Levi S. Peterson Weber State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
Regeneration Through Violence
Reflections on Violence
Regeneration Through Violence
The Symbolic and the Symptomatic
Regeneration Through Violence
Strain of Violence
Richard Slotkin; Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1 July 1976
So Dreadfull a Judgment
So Dreadfull a Judgment
Journal Article So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip's War, 1676–1677 Get access So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip's War, 1676–1677. Edited by Slotkin Richard Folsom James K.. (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. 490 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $24.00, cloth; $6.95, paper.) Timothy J. Sehr Timothy J. Sehr Valdosta State College Search for other works by thi…
The Half-Blood
Journal Article The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. By William J. Scheick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979. xii + 113 pp. Notes and index. $9.75.) Get access Richard Slotkin Richard Slotkin Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 2, September 1980, Pages 414–415, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890453 Pu…
Nostalgia and Progress
endorse Frederick Jackson Turner's controversial lecture on Significance of the Frontier in American History when it appeared in 1893. Roosevelt greeted Turner as a colleague, and praised him for having put into shape a good deal of thought that has been floating around rather loosely. Turner was pleased to be recognized by a man who-although not yet a major political figure-was his senior as a historian, and whose definitive multivolume The Winn…
Race and Manifest Destiny
So Dreadful a Judgment
For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675 77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, carrying out a divinely inspired errand into the wilderness. Seven texts reprinted here reveal efforts of Puritan writers to make sense of King Philip…
The fatal environment
The Fatal Environment
The Fatal Environment
Religious Freedom or Real Estate
The Fatal Environment
Journal Article The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 Get access The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890. By Slotkin Richard. (New York: Atheneum, 1985. xiii + 636 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $37.50.) William Cronon William Cronon Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qua…
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