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Howard Roberts Lamar (November 18, 1923 – February 22, 2023) was an American historian of the American West. In addition to being Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University since 1994, he served as President of Yale University from 1992 to 1993.




Biography


Lamar was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on November 18, 1923, and was drawn into history in part by his rich family history which includes two United States Supreme Court justices and the second president of the Republic of Texas. He received his B.A. from Emory University in 1945 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951. He was president of Yale from 1992 to 1993, and since 1994 has been a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. He directed thirty-four dissertations in history and another thirteen in American studies. His prominent students include Lewis L. Gould and Patricia Nelson Limerick.
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University was established in his honor.
Lamar died on February 22, 2023, at the age of 99.




Bibliography


Dakota Territory, 1861–1889
The Cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845–1847
The Far Southwest, 1846–1912: A Territorial History
The Trader on the American Frontier: Myth’s Victim
The New Encyclopedia of the American West
Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography




See also


List of presidents of Yale University




Notes






References


Gould, Lewis L. (2000). "Howard Roberts Lamar" in Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000 (Robert Allen Rutland, ed.). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Kelley, Brooks Mather. (1999). Yale: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07843-5; OCLC 810552




External links


Howard Roberts Lamar Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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