Richard Sidney Slotkin (born November 8, 1942) is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and, since 2010, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Slotkin writes novels, predominantly historical ones, alongside his historical research, and uses the process of writing the novels to clarify and refine his historical work.
Books in order of publication:
Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (Wesleyan University Press, 1973)
The Crater: A Novel of the Civil War (Atheneum, 1980)
Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890, (Atheneum, 1985)
The Return of Henry Starr (Atheneum, 1988)
Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Atheneum, 1992)
Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln (Henry Holt and Company, 2000)
Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (Henry Holt and Company, 2005)
No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 (Random House, 2009)
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012)
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America (Belknap Press, 2024)
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