Richard Wightman Fox

Biographic Data

ID341387
NAMERichard Wightman Fox
GIVEN NAMESRichard Wightman
FAMILY NAMEFox
SIGNATUREFOX R W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Increasing Inclusivity in Biological Recording in the United Kingdom: Progress to Date and Future Priorities

    Open AccessRachel Pateman, Richard Wightman Fox et al.ARTICLECitizen Science: Theory and…2026

    Volunteer biological recording generates valuable data for developing ecological understanding and informing environmental decision making. For volunteers, it offers the chance to build knowledge and skills, connect with nature and each other, and enhance wellbeing. As with other forms of citizen science there are demographic biases, with current participants being predominantly white, well-educated, older and more affluent. Increasing inclusivit…

  • Reading Lincoln's Mind

    Open AccessRichard Wightman FoxARTICLEModern Intellectual History2006

    Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1999) William Lee Miller, Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (New York: Knopf, 2002) Stewart Winger, Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003) Since Good Friday 1865 most Americans have adored their sixteenth president. They venerate him because he so vividly embodies their two most cheri…

  • A Heartbreaking Problem of Staggering Proportions

    Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEJournal of American History2004Cited by: 1

    Journal Article A Heartbreaking Problem of Staggering Proportions Get access Richard Wightman Fox Richard Wightman Fox professor of history University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 4, March 2004, Pages 1341–1347, https://doi.org/10.2307/3660353 Published: 01 March 2004

  • Religion and Cultural Studies

    Eytan Bercovitch, Gillian Feeley-Harnik et al.BOOKReligion and Cultural Studies2001

  • Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal

    Ward M Mcafee, Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. By Richard Wightman Fox. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 419 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-25938-2.) Get access Ward M. McAfee Ward M. McAfee California State University, San Bernardino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1443–1445, https://d…

  • Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal

    Joan D Hedrick, Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2000

  • Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

    Richard Wightman Fox, Scott E CasperARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Constructing American Lives: Biography & Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Scott E. Casper. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 439 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2462-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4765-8.) Get access Richard Wightman Fox Richard Wightman Fox University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…

  • The Degradation of American History

    Richard Wightman Fox, David HarlanARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

    American historical writing has traditionally been a primary form of moral reflection. However, this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential, and adopted the methodology of the social sciences. It describes the reasons for this change to objectivity and professionalism, explains why it failed, and examines the emergence of a new traditionalism in American historical writing. The fi…

  • Religious advocacy and American history

    Open AccessRichard Wightman FoxARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1998

  • A Companion to American Thought

    Robert M Crunde, Richard Wightman Fox et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 1

    Journal Article A Companion to American Thought. Ed. by Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg. (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995. xvi, 804 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-55786-268-0.) Get access Robert M. Crunden Robert M. Crunden University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1364–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952911 Published: …

  • The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History

    Gary Gerstle, Richard Wightman Fox et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History. Ed. by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. vi, 292 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-226-25954-4. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-226-25955-2.) Get access Gary Gerstle Gary Gerstle Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…

  • The Power of Cultural History

    Open AccessMargaret Finnegan, Richard Wightman Fox et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1994

    IN THE POWER OF CULTURE: CRITICAL ESSAYS IN AMERICAN HIsToRY, RICHARD Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears discuss the development of U.S. cultural history during the last decade. They are well suited to the task. Separately and together, they have made important contributions to this varied and increasingly popular field. Their 1983 collection, The Culture of Consumption, contended that, between 1880 and 1980, American politics, society, and pow…

  • The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America

    Richard Wightman FoxREVIEWJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America. By Thomas R. Cole. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxxvi + 260 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-521-41020-7.) Get access Richard Wightman Fox Richard Wightman Fox Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • The Culture of Liberal Protestant Progressivism, 1875-1925

    Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1993Cited by: 11

    Cette culture, a la fois religieuse et laique, pronait une reconstruction sociale que les liberaux et les progressistes consideraient non seulement comme necessaire et urgente, mais aussi realisable de facon imminente : Bourne et Rauschenbusch attirerent l'attention sur le dynamisme de quelques individus ; Beecher et Gladen sur la discipline de la foule. Mais tous participerent a la culture du progressisme protestant et liberal, un mouvement cons…

  • Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980

    Richard Wightman Fox, Steven SeidmanARTICLEJournal of American History1992Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830–1980. By Steven Seidman. (New York: Routledge, 1991. xii + 247 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-415-90404-8.) Get access Richard Wightman Fox Richard Wightman Fox Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1159, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080848 Published: 01 December 1992

  • What Matters is Manners

    Richard Wightman Fox, John F KassonARTICLEReviews in American History1991

  • H. Richard Niebuhr's Divided Kingdom

    Open AccessRichard Wightman FoxARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1990

  • Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer

    Richard Wightman Fox, Richard Fox et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer. By Paul M. Minus. (New York: Macmillan, 1988. xii + 243 pp. $19.95.) Get access Richard Fox Richard Fox Reed College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 952–953, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936503 Published: 01 December 1989

  • Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography

    R Stephen Warner, Jesse H Wright et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1989

    Journal Article Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography, by Richard Wightman Fox. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, xii + 340 pp. $19.95 Get access R. Stephen Warner R. Stephen Warner University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 4, Winter 1989, Pages 447–449, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711233 Published: 01 December 1989

  • Putting Religion in its (Pivotal) Place

    Richard Wightman Fox, David B Danbom et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1988

  • Public Culture and the Problem of Synthesis

    Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEJournal of American History1987Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Public Culture and the Problem of Synthesis Get access Richard Wightman Fox Richard Wightman Fox associate professor of history Reed College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 113–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908509 Published: 01 June 1987

  • The Prophet and the Establishment

    Henry F May, Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEReviews in American History1986

  • Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography

    Donald Meyer, Richard Wightman Fox et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1986Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography. By Richard Wightman Fox. (New York: Pantheon, 1985. xi + 340 pp. $19.95.) and The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses. Ed. by Robert McAfee Brown. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xxiv + 264 pp. $19.95.) Get access Donald Meyer Donald Meyer Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73,…

  • Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography

    Gaddis Smith, Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEForeign Affairs1986Cited by: 5

  • Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Robert N. Bellah , Richard Madsen , William M. Sullivan , Ann Swidler , Steven M. Tipton

    Richard Wightman FoxARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1986Cited by: 1