Richard Carwardine
Richard Carwardine Queen's College, Oxford UCAL, Berkeley | |
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| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Politics of the United States Religion in the United States American Civil War Abraham Lincoln |
| Institutions | University of Sheffield University of Oxford |
Richard John Carwardine American politics and religion in the era of the American Civil War.
The professor is best known for his work on President Abraham Lincoln and was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2016.[1]
Early life
Born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of John Francis Carwardine and Beryl Jones, he attended Maesycwmmer Primary School and
Monmouth School, before going up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as William Jones Exhibitioner, graduating BA in modern history 1968 (MA 1972). He pursued further studies in history at The Queen's College, Oxford, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in 1975. Carwardine then went to the University of California, Berkeley
, as the Ochs-Oakes Senior Scholar in American History and Institutions.
While a student at
Oxford, Carwardine played the role of Cornelius in the film Doctor Faustus
(1967) with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Academic career
Carwardine taught American history at the
Oxford University
.
Honours, fellowships and prizes
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society(1983)
- Fellow of the British Academy (2006)
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- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (2019)[3]
- Carwardine was inducted into The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honour) by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate.[4]
Bibliography
- Carwardine, Richard. Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790–1865. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1978. OCLC 4037176
- Carwardine, Richard. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. OCLC 26931100
- Carwardine, Richard. Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press During the American Civil War. [Reading]: University of Reading, 2004. OCLC 61810490
- Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. OCLC 60421093
- Carwardine, Richard, and Jay Sexton. The Global Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. OCLC 666242533
- Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln's Sense of Humor. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0809336142
See also
- Haberdashers' Company
References
- ^ "Corpus Christi College Oxford – President and Fellows". University of Oxford. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Richard Carwardine". University of Oxford. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
- ^ www.rai.ox.ac.uk
- ^ Prof Richard Carwardine on the Lincoln Academy site, 2009
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