Stephen Aron

Biographic Data

ID1025642
NAMEStephen Aron
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMEAron
SIGNATUREARON S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The Meetings of Peoples and Empires at the Confluence of the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers

    Stephen AronCHAPTERUntaming the Frontier in…2023

  • The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896. The Oxford History of the United States. By Richard White

    Open AccessStephen AronARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2018

    Richard White’s The Republic for Which It Stands is the latest addition to the prestigious “Oxford History of the United States.” White’s is the ninth volume (of a projected twelve) in the series to appear. Four of the volumes that have been published received the Pulitzer Prize, including the two whose chronology immediately precede White’s (Daniel Walker Howe’s, What Hath God Wrought, which covers the period from 1815–1846, and James McPherson’…

  • The We in West

    Stephen AronARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2017

    Stephen Aron is professor of history and Robert N. Burr Department Chair at UCLA. He thanks John Gray for teaching him that we have no alternative but to make history matter more to more people, Virginia Scharff for turning Los Angeles traffic jams into productive thought incubators, and Paul Aron, Anne Hyde, and Elaine Nelson for much valued comments on a draft of this address. He is also indebted to the Autry Museum, Binghamton University, Brig…

  • Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier. By Honor Sachs

    Stephen AronARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2016

    Honor Sachs’s monograph takes its title from Carl Becker’s much-quoted proposition that the American Revolution was not so much a contest for “home rule” as it was a battle about “who shall rule at home.” For more than a century, Becker’s assertion has shaped scholarly debates about the birth of the United States. In Home Rule, Sachs suggests that the American settlement of Kentucky during and immediately following the revolution brought forth de…

  • The American West: A Very Short Introduction

    Stephen AronBOOKThe American West2015

    Familiar figures - missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians - appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.

  • Empires and enclaves

    Stephen AronCHAPTERThe American West2014

    Columbus discovered an Old World in 1492. Steep population declines reduced Indian numbers by more than 90 percent in the following four centuries. European maps of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries claimed to have carved up most of North America, but ‘Empires and enclaves’ shows that control over North American lands remained hotly contested during this time. Well into the eighteenth century, the vast majority of North American Indians ha…

  • Taking the farther West

    Stephen AronCHAPTERThe American West2014

    By the time the last Indian removals from the First West were being carried out in the early nineteenth century, the demands of Americans for lands farther west, within and beyond the borders of the Louisiana Purchase, were creating conflicts with existing occupants and rival claimants. Over time, these claims displaced prior arrangements between fur traders and Indians. They also led to war between the United States and Mexico. ‘Taking the farth…

  • Introduction: American Wests

    Stephen AronCHAPTERThe American West2014

    ‘Introduction: American Wests’ shows that the confusion of legend and fact, of myth and history, makes it hard to disentangle the stories we have told about the development of the American West from our understanding of what really happened. This VSI explains how the gap between projections and reality has shaped the development of the West and confounded our interpretations of its history. This history of the American West expands the chronology…

  • The view from Cahokia

    Stephen AronCHAPTERThe American West2014

    ‘The view from Cahokia’ describes a dynamic and diverse “prehistory” defined by peoples in motion, societies in flux, cultures entangling, powers competing, and realms shifting—all with important implications for the colonial trajectories that followed. Some 120 great earthen mounds at Cahokia in the Mississippi valley, spread across five square miles, had been built by ad 1100. Between ten and twenty thousand people lived in Cahokia at its peak …

  • William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns

    Stephen Aron, AronARTICLEJournal of American History2012

    In the wake of the outpouring of publications that accompanied the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, readers of Peter J. Kastor’s new book may well wonder if anything new can be said about William Clark. The answer provided by William Clark’s World is yes, though the revelations are not so much biographical as they are cultural. Although Kastor’s study captures Clark’s sizeable personal ambitions, the book’s primary concern is with …

  • Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase

    Stephen Aron, AronARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Journal Article Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase Get access Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase. Ed. by Peter J. Kastor and François Weil. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 370 pp. $40.00, ISBN978-0-8139-2807-4.) Stephen Aron Stephen Aron University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: …

  • The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark

    Open AccessStephen AronCHAPTERThe Best American History Essays…2007

    This essay maps the fall and rise of Lewis and Clark by exploring what happened to the explorers following the return of the Corps of Discovery to St. Louis in September 1806. Charting the personal descent of Meriwether Lewis and the political undoing of William Clark, the article ties the sad fate of the cocaptains to the far sadder fate of race relations on the American frontier. Turning, then, from the lives of Lewis and Clark after the expedi…

  • American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

    William E Foley, Stephen AronARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

    Jay Gitlin, Stephen AronARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007

    Journal Article American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State Get access American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. By Aron Stephen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxi + 301 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue…

  • Returning the West to the World

    Stephen AronARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2006

    So long has “the West” stood for America, that it is hard to imagine it as part of the Americas. Likewise, so long has its history been associated with the westward expansion of the United States, that it is difficult to envision the West as a place shaped by movements from other directions. Yet to understand how the West became a West (and not a “North,” a “South,” or an “East”) and how it became American requires that we recover a history in wh…

  • The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark

    Stephen AronARTICLESouthern California Quarterly2005

    Research Article| April 01 2005 The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark Stephen Aron Stephen Aron Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (2005) 87 (1): 27–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/41172248 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ste…

  • Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier

    Stephen Aron, Shirley ChristianARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2004

  • Prize Reflections 2001 Western History Association Published Prizewinners: The Next Western History

    Stephen AronARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2002

    Journal Article Prize Reflections 2001 Western History Association Published Prizewinners: The Next Western History Get access Stephen Aron Stephen Aron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn 2002, Pages 337–341, https://doi.org/10.2307/4144841 Published: 01 August 2002

  • Into the West: The Story of Its People

    Stephen AronARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2001

    Book Review| July 01 2001 Into the West: The Story of Its People Into the West: The Story of Its People, Walter Nugent. Stephen Aron Stephen Aron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 124–125. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502772 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Aron; Into the West: The Story of Its People. J…

  • Lincoln of Kentucky

    Stephen Aron, Lowell H HarrisonARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Lincoln of Kentucky. By Lowell H. Harrison. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 305 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-8131-2156-6.) Get access Stephen Aron Stephen Aron University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1498–1499, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674796 Published: 01 March 2001

  • Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas

    Stephen Aron, Gregg CantrellARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2000

  • New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio

    Stephen Aron, Virginia E Mccormick et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

  • The New Encyclopedia of the American West

    Stephen Aron, Howard R LamarARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2000

    Journal Article The New Encyclopedia of the American West Get access The New Encyclopedia of the American West. Edited by Lamar Howard R.. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xv + 1324 pp. Illustrations, index. $60.00.) Stephen Aron Stephen Aron University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 1, Spring 2000, Pages 73–74, https://doi.…

  • A Man of Distinction among Them: Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799

    Stephen Aron, Larry Lee NelsonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000

  • From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History

    Jeremy Adelman, Stephen AronARTICLEThe American Historical Review1999

    Jeremy Adelman, doctorate, Stephen Aron, PhD; From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History, Th