H. Arnold Barton
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General Information
Name: H. Arnold BartonPen Names: Hildor Barton, Hildor Arnold Barton
Genres: Non-Fiction
Born: 1929 in Los Angeles, California
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Illinois Connection
He works at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Biographical and Professional Information
Barton received his B.A. degree at Pomona College and his doctorate at Princeton University. Arnold Barton taught history at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (1960 to 1963) and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1963 to 1970). He taught at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, where he became professor in 1975 and from where he retired in 1996 as professor emeritus of history.
He is the author of Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765–1815; A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840–1940; and The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga, a story about his own descent from Swedish emigrants. Barton also edited Letters from the Promised Land, an anthology from 1979 with Swedish emigrants' letters.
Barton served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish-American Historic Society and is editor emeritus of the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly.
He holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University and was named Swedish American of the Year in 1988 by the Royal Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vasa Order of America. In 2000, His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden bestowed on Barton the insignia of Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star.
Published Works
Count Hans Axel Von Fersen: Aristocrat in An Age of Revolution, Twayne Publishers, 1976
The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga, Southern Illinois University, 1979
Clipper Ship and Covered Wagon: Essays from the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly, Arno Press, 1979
A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994
Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815, University of Minnesota Press, 1986
Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765 - 1815, Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture 1814-1905, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
Essays on Scandinavian History, Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
Count Hans Axel Von Fersen: Aristocrat in An Age of Revolutin (The Library of Scandinavian Studies)ISBN: 080575363X Release Date: 1976-02 |
The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family SagaASIN: B002Y2BFBA Release Date: 1979 |
Clipper Ship and Covered Wagon: Essays from the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly (Scandinavians in America)ISBN: 0405116667 Release Date: 1979-06 |
 | A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940ISBN: 0809319446 Release Date: 1994-12-02 |
 | Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815 (Nordic)ISBN: 0816613931 Release Date: 1986-06-30 |
 | Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765 - 1815ISBN: 080932203X Release Date: 1999-02-02 |
 | Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture 1814-1905ISBN: 0809324415 Release Date: 2002-12-16 |
 | Essays on Scandinavian HistoryISBN: 0809328860 Release Date: 2008-12-10 |
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