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Current, Richard Nelson

LC control no.n 79039877
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Personal name headingCurrent, Richard Nelson
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Variant(s)Current, Richard N. (Richard Nelson)
Birth date1912-10-05
Death date2012-10-26
Place of birthColorado City, Colo.
Place of deathBoston, Mass.
Field of activityUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Profession or occupationHistorian College teacher
Found inHis Old Thad Stevens, 1942: t.p. (Richard Nelson Current)
His Northernizing the South, c1983: CIP t.p. (Richard N. Current)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1912)
New York times WWW site, Nov. 7, 2012 (in obituary published Nov. 4: Richard N. Current; b. in Colorado City; d. Oct. 26, Boston, aged 100; Civil War historian whose award-winning scholarship helped demythologize Abraham Lincoln and raise Lincoln studies to a professional level of scholarly inquiry)
Gale biography in context WWW site, Nov. 7, 2012 (Richard N(elson) Current; b. Oct. 5, 1912, Colorado City, Colo.; historian)
Associated languageeng