Howard R Lamar

Biographic Data

ID685166
NAMEHoward R Lamar
GIVEN NAMESHoward R
FAMILY NAMELamar
SIGNATURELAMAR H R
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX2

  • Editing and Publishing The Frontier in History with Leonard Thompson, 1971–1981

    Howard R LamarARTICLESafundi2006

    The author, who edited The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared (1981) with the late Leonard Thompson, tells how he first met Thompson and later organized with him a series of graduate student seminars comparing the North American and southern African frontiers. He then discusses the publication of their book, which appeared the same year as George Fredrickson's White Supremacy, and how their work (together with Fredric…

  • Westward Ho-But Westward How

    Gregory H Nobles, Howard R Lamar et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • The New Encyclopedia of the American West

    Beth Ladow, Howard R LamarARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The New Encyclopedia of the American West. Ed. by Howard R. Lamar. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xviii, 1,324 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-300-07088-8.) Get access Beth LaDow Beth LaDow Winchester, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568778 Published: 01 September 2000

  • 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.…

  • The Dust Rose like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux

    Howard R Lamar, James O GumpARTICLEEthnohistory1997

  • The greater Southwest and California from the beginning of European settlement to the 1880s

    Open AccessHoward R Lamar, Sam TruettCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of the…1996

    Coronado’s despairing report in the 1540s that no gold and no fabulous cities of wealth existed to the north of New Spain led to the first realistic image the Spanish had of the Greater Southwest. Coronado and subsequent Spanish travelers to what would later become New Mexico described a land of villaged welling agricultural Indians. These villages were surrounded by nomadic hunting and raiding Indians whose domain covered a vast area from presen…

  • Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and The American Far West, 1836-1986

    Walter L Buenger, Howard R Lamar et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

    John Mack Faragher, Angela Miller et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West. By Jules David Prown, Nancy K. Anderson, William Cronon, Brian W. Dippie, Martha A. Sandweiss, Susan Prendergast Schoelwer, and Howard R. Lamar. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. xvi + 217 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-300-05722-9. Paper, $30.00, ISBN 0-89467061-1.) Get access Angela Miller Angela Miller Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Searc…

  • Writing the History of the American West

    Michael J Gillis, Martin Ridge et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1993

  • Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836-1986

    Richard W Etulain, Howard R LamarARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986. By Howard R. Lamar. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. xviii + 82 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-292-78115-6.) Get access Richard W. Etulain Richard W. Etulain University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1162–1163, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

  • Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836-1986

    J''Nell L Pate, J'Nell L Pate et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1992

  • Astoria & Empire

    Howard R Lamar, James P RondaARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1992

    Journal Article Astoria & Empire Get access Astoria & Empire. By Ronda James P.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xiv + 400 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Howard R. Lamar Howard R. Lamar Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 77–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/970253 Published: 01 Februar…

  • The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West

    Fred R Gowans, Howard R LamarARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West. Ed. by Howard R. Lamar. (New York: Harper & Row, 1977 [1986]. xi + 1306 pp. $29.95.) Get access Fred R. Gowans Fred R. Gowans Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1395, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908773 Published: 01 March 1989

  • Andrew Jackson Grayson, Birds of the Pacific Slope: A Biography of the Artist and Naturalist, 1818-1869

    Howard R Lamar, Lois Chambers StoneARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1989

    Journal Article Andrew Jackson Grayson, Birds of the Pacific Slope: A Biography of the Artist and Naturalist, 1818–1869 Get access Andrew Jackson Grayson, Birds of the Pacific Slope: A Biography of the Artist and Naturalist, 1818–1869. By Stone Lois Chambers. (San Francisco: Arion Press, 1986. 433 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Portfolio and biography, $4,500.) Howard R. Lamar Howard R. Lamar Yale University Search for other works by this autho…

  • Earl Pomeroy, Historian's Historian

    Howard R LamarARTICLEPacific Historical Review1987References: 3

    Research Article| November 01 1987 Earl Pomeroy, Historian's Historian Howard R. Lamar Howard R. Lamar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1987) 56 (4): 547–560. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638639 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …

  • The End of American History: Democracy, Capitalism, and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in Anglo-American Historical Writing, 1880-1980

    Howard R Lamar, David W NobleARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1987

  • Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

    Howard R Lamar, Kevin StarrARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

    Journal Article Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era Get access Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. By Starr Kevin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xi + 380 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) Howard R. Lamar Howard R. Lamar Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 1986, Pages 334–33…

  • Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years

    W Turrentine Jackson, Jean-Nicolas Perlot et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

    Journal Article Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years Get access Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years. By Perlot Jean-Nicolas. Translated by Helen Harding Bretnor. Edited by Lamar Howard R.. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. xxxii + 451 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) W. Turrentine Jackson W. Turrentine Jackson University of California, Davis Search for other …

  • Much to Celebrate: The Western History Association's Twenty-Fifth Birthday

    Howard R LamarARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

    Journal Article Much to Celebrate: The Western History Association's Twenty-Fifth Birthday Get access Howard R. Lamar Howard R. Lamar William Robertson Coe Professor of History Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 4, October 1986, Pages 397–416, https://doi.org/10.2307/969016 Published: 01 October 1986

  • Women and the West: Rethinking the Western History Survey Course

    William Cronon, Howard R Lamar et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

    William Cronon, Howard R. Lamar, Katherine G. Morrissey, Ph.D., Jay Gitlin, Ph.D.; Women and the West: Rethinking the Western History Survey Course, Wester

  • The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis

    Howard R Lamar, William E Foley et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1985

    Journal Article The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St Louis. By William E. Foley and C. David Rice. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xiii + 241 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, bibliograpy, and index. $22.50.) Get access Howard R. Lamar Howard R. Lamar Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Page 141, https://doi…

  • The Frontier in History: North American and Southern Africa Compared

    Robert I Rotberg, Howard Lamar et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1983Cited by: 2

  • Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement

    Howard R Lamar, William K WyantARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1983

    technology within the reach of anyone interested in interpreting and preserving our ways of life for future generations.He discusses how to select the proper video format, how to set up and use video equipment, how to record oral history interviews, and how to expand interpretation with video.Three appendixes illustrate the equipment available and include price ranges.Certainly a useful guide in the modern age of television and video

  • The United States and South Africa in Comparative Perspective: Three Recent Books

    David A Waas, John W Cell et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1983

  • The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Campared

    Open AccessGerald M Mcsheffrey, Howard Lamar et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1983