Daniel K. Richter

Daniel Karl Richter was born on October 15, 1954, in Erie, Pennsylvania.[1] He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1984.[1] Before, coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Richter taught at the College of William & Mary and Dickinson College.[1]

• 1993 Ray Allen Billington Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
• 1993 Frederick Jackson Turner 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
• 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Facing East from Indian Country[2]

• The Lords Proprietors: Feudal Dreams in English America, 1660-1689, under contract with Harvard University Press.
• Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). ISBN 9780812245004.
• Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (Harvard University Press, 2011; paperback 2013). ISBN 9780674072367.
• Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Harvard University Press, 2001; paperback 2003). ISBN 9780674011175.
• The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (University of North Carolina Press, 1992). ISBN 9780807843949.
• Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, co-editor with William Pencak (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). ISBN 978-0-271-02385-4.
• Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800, co-editor with James H. Merrell (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0271022994.