John Mack Faragher, Ph.D.

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Yale University, New Haven, CT

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American West and Frontier

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http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/faragher.html

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John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in southern California, where he attended the University of California, Riverside (B.A., 1967), and did social work, before coming to Yale (Ph.D., 1977). After fifteen years as a professor at Mount Holyoke College he returned to Yale in 1993. His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992); The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Hine; A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005); and Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. Hine. He teaches the history of the American West and directs the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.

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Howard R. Lamar

grad student

1977

Yale

Children

Adam I. Arenson	grad student		Yale
Catherine A. Corman	grad student	1999	Yale
Elizabeth Fenn	grad student	1999	Yale
Kenneth Orona	grad student	1999	Yale
Benjamin H. Johnson	grad student	2000	Yale
Raul Ramos	grad student	2000	Yale
Bettina L. Drew	grad student	2001	Yale
Andrew B. Lewis	grad student	2001	Yale
Thomas M. McCarthy	grad student	2001	Yale
J.C. Mutchler	grad student	2002	Yale
Jack C. Mutchler	grad student	2002	Yale
Robert B. Campbell	grad student	2003	Yale
Jon T. Coleman	grad student	2003	Yale
James Kassenides	grad student	2003	Yale
Michelle M. Nickerson	grad student	2003	Yale
Christian W. McMillen	grad student	2004	Yale
Aaron J. Sachs	grad student	2004	Yale
Scott M. Kleeb	grad student	2006	Yale
Robert M. Morrissey	grad student	2006	Yale
Roxanne R. Willis	grad student	2006	Yale
Denise I. Bossy	grad student	2007	Yale
Angela Pulley Hudson	grad student	2007	Yale
Geraldo Luhan Cadava	grad student	2008	Yale
Paul J. Grant-Costa	grad student	2008	Yale
Benjamin L. Madley	grad student	2009	Yale
Melissa N. Stuckey	grad student	2009	Yale
Rebecca T. McKenna	grad student	2010	Yale
Barry R. Muchnick	grad student	2010	Yale
Ryan Andre Brasseaux	grad student	2011	Yale
Karen L. Marrero	grad student	2011	Yale
Katherine R. Untermann	grad student	2011	Yale
Christine M. DeLucia	grad student	2012	Yale
Catherine C. McNeur	grad student	2012	Yale
Taylor Spence	grad student	2012	Yale
Jayne E. Ptolemy	grad student	2013	Yale
Mary A. Riley Sousa	grad student	2013	Yale
Andrew Offenburger	grad student	2008-2014	Yale

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Faragher JM. (2017) “And the lonely voice of youth cries ‘What is truth?’”: Western History and the National Narrative Western Historical Quarterly. 48: 1-21
Faragher JM. (2015) Review: Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America by Gary Clayton Anderson Pacific Historical Review. 84: 538-539
Faragher JM. (2014) Commentary: Settler colonial studies and the North American frontier Settler Colonial Studies. 4: 181-191
Faragher JM. (2010) Seizing Destiny: The Relentless Expansion of American Territory Western Historical Quarterly. 41: 401-401
Faragher JM. (2009) Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. By Walter Nugent . (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. xvii + 387 pp. $30 cloth, $17 paper) Pacific Historical Review. 78: 627-628
Faragher JM. (2008) Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West Western Historical Quarterly. 39
Faragher JM. (2008) Sterling Evans, editor. The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-Ninth Parallel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xxxv, 386. $49.95 The American Historical Review. 113: 482-484
Turner FJ, Faragher JM. (2008) Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The significance of the frontier in American history", and other essays Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: 'the Significance of the Frontier in American History' and Other Essays. 1-255
Hine RV, Faragher JM. (2007) Frontiers: A short history of the American west Frontiers: a Short History of the American West. 1-248
Faragher JM. (2006) N. E. S. Griffiths. From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604–1755. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press for the Canadian Institute for Research on Public Policy and Public Administration, University of Moncton. 2005. Pp. xix, 633. $49.95. The American Historical Review. 111: 458-459