James Wright (historian)
Encyclopedia
James Edward Wright is a historian
who serves on the faculty of Dartmouth College
, an Ivy League
university in Hanover, New Hampshire
, from 1969 to present, and was that institution's president from 1998 to 2009.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
who serves on the faculty of Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, an Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
university in Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....
, from 1969 to present, and was that institution's president from 1998 to 2009.
Works
- The Galena Lead District: Federal Policy and Practices, 1824–1847 (1966);
- The West of the American People (1970);
- The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado (1974);
- The Great Plains Experience: Readings in the History of a Region (1978); and
- The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire (1987).