Daniel K. Richter

Daniel K. Richter is an American historian.

Life

Richter earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University and then taught at Dickinson College and the University of East Anglia. He now teaches at University of Pennsylvania.

Awards

• 1993 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 1993 Ray Allen Billington Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 2001-02 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History, for Facing East from Indian Country
• Pulitzer Prize finalist for Facing East from Indian Country

Works

• Whose Indian History? Daniel K. Richter The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 50, No. 2, Early American History: Its Past and Future. (Apr., 1993), pp. 379–393.
• The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization. University of North Carolina Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8078-4394-9. 
• Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Harvard University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-674-00638-6. 
• Daniel K. Richter, James H. Merrell, eds. (2003). Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800. Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02299-4.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• William Pencak, Daniel K. Richter, eds. (2004). Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania. Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02385-4.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Peter C. Mancall, James Hart Merrell, eds. (2000). "War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience". American encounters: natives and newcomers from European contact to Indian removal, 1500-1850. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92375-0.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts. Harvard University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-674-07236-7. 

Criticism

• "Review: Alan Taylor. American Colonies. The Penguin History of the United States", Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol.5 2003