Daniel Karl Richter (born October 15, 1954) is an American historian specializing in early American history, especially colonial North America and Native American history before 1800. He is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His book Facing East from Indian Country was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.

Life and career

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

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