Howard R. Lamar

He was born in 1923 in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.,[2] and was drawn into history in part by his rich family history which includes two United States Supreme Court justices and the second president of the Republic of Texas. He received his B.A. from Emory University in 1945 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951.[3] He was president of Yale from 1992 to 1993, and since 1994 has been a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale.[1]

The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University was established in his honor.[1]

• Dakota Territory, 1861–1889
• The Cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845–1847
• The Far Southwest, 1846–1912: A Territorial History
• The Trader on the American Frontier: Myth’s Victim
• The New Encyclopedia of the American West
• Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography

• List of presidents of Yale University

• Gould, Lewis L. (2000). "Howard Roberts Lamar" in Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000 (Robert Allen Rutland, ed.). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
• Kelley, Brooks Mather. (1999). Yale: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07843-5; OCLC 810552

• Howard Roberts Lamar Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.