Faragher, John Mack

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FARAGHER, John Mack

FARAGHER, John Mack. American, b. 1945. Genres: History, Biography. Career: Department of Public Social Services, Los Angeles, CA, social worker, 1968-69; Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor in American studies, 1975-77; University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, assistant professor of history, 1977-78; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, assistant professor, 1978-83, associate professor of history, 1983-. Publications: Women and Men on the Overland Trail, 1979; Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, 1987; Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, 1992; (with others) Out of Many: A History of the American People, 1994. EDITOR: (with F. Howe) Women and Higher Education in American History: Essays from the Mount Holyoke College Sesquicentennial Symposia, 1988; The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1990; Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History, and Other Essays, 1994. Contributor to books and periodicals. Address: Department of History, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, U.S.A.

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