Richard Hildreth (1807-1865), American historian and political theorist, wrote one of the first multivolume histories of the United States.Richard Hildreth was born in Deerfield, Mass., on June 22, 18...
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Richard Hildreth (28 June 1807-11 July 1865), historian, novelist, and political writer, was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in ...
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Richard Hildreth was an American polymath. Although trained as a lawyer, he spent the larger part of his working life as a journalist. A vigorous and powerful polemicist, he wielded a trenchant pen in...
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Richard Hildreth's literary criticism was written early in his career and over a brief period of time. It had little if any impact upon the theory and practice of his contemporaries, and today it is o...
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Richard Hildreth is most often remembered as an historian who wrote the six-volume History of the United States (1849; 1851, 1852). But Hildreth also was a lawyer, a successful newspaper editor, an ac...
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Richard Hildreth
Richard Hildreth