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Bachelors English University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Sidney Slotkin is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and, since 2010, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Slotkin writes novels alongside his historical research, and uses the process of writing the novels to clarify and refine his historical work.

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Reflections on Violence@@@Frontier Violence: Another Look.@@@Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. (1975) (352)
The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization 1800-1890 (1987) (286)
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (1992) (186)
The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (1986) (167)
Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (1976) (61)
Fiction for the Purposes of History (2005) (57)
Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (2005) (34)
Nostalgia and Progress: Theodore Roosevelt's Myth of the Frontier (1981) (33)
Unit Pride: Ethnic Platoons and the Myths of American Nationality (2001) (27)
So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip's War 1676-1677 (1979) (26)
Myth of the Frontier (2015) (19)
Narratives of Negro Crime in New England, 1675-1800 (1973) (19)
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. (1988) (16)
Dreams and Genocide: The American Myth of Regeneration Through Violence (1971) (11)
Prologue to a Study of Myth and Genre in American Movies (1984) (9)
Gunfighters and Green Berets: The Magnificent Seven and the Myth of Counter-Insurgency (1989) (7)
Thinking Mythologically: Black Hawk Down, the “Platoon Movie,” and the War of Choice in Iraq (2017) (6)
When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860 / Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (1974) (6)
Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture (1996) (5)
Religious Freedom or Real Estate: The Problem of Ideology in Interdisciplinary Studies@@@The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization (1986) (5)
The Continuity of Forms: Myth and Genre in Warner Brothers' The Charge of the Light Brigade (1990) (4)
“What Shall Men Remember?”: Recent Work on the Civil War (1991) (4)
No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater (2009) (4)
So Dreadful a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Phillip's War, 1676-1677 (1984) (3)
Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln (2000) (2)
The Contextual Symbol: Karl Shapiro's Image of "The Jew" (1966) (2)
Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History, by Richard Campanella (2012) (2)
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution (2012) (2)
The “Lost Battalion” of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality (2014) (1)
The return of Henry Starr (1988) (1)
Frontier Death Rattle@@@The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. (1987) (0)
Michael A. Lofaro, editor. Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy, 1786–1986. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1985. Pp. xxiii, 203. $14.95 (1986) (0)
In Quest of Sam Fathers (2016) (0)
The Science of Mythography (2016) (0)
The New Censorship@@@Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy.@@@Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties.@@@Sade: A Biography@@@Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate.@@@Only Words.@@@Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America.@@@Democracy and the Problem of Free Spe (1994) (0)
Literary Criticism and Cultural History (1972) (0)
A View of the Professional Nurse (1952) (0)
Cowboys As Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History:Cowboys As Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History (2006) (0)

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