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Malcolm J. Rohrbough

American West

Office: 270 SH

Tel: (319) 335-2292

Email: malcolm-rohrbough@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Research

Professor Malcolm Rohrbough is a respected faculty member of the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He is an authority on the American West, the days of the California gold rush, and the American frontier. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1963.

Professor Rohrbough received a Senior NEH Fellowship to spend the academic year 2004-2005 at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, where he continues his research on the French and the California Gold Rush.

Teaching

Courses recently taught by Professor Rohrbough include:

  • 16:272 Readings in The American Frontier
  • 16A:051 Colloquium for History Majors (American)
  • 16A:061 American History, 1492-1877
  • 16A:132 Frontier in American History, 1840-Present

Publications

  • "Mining in the Nineteenth Century American West," in A Companion to the American West, William Deverell, ed. (2004)
  • "The Influence of Government and Law on the Settlement of the Trans-Appalachian West, 1775-1830," in States, Societies, Cultures East and West: Essays in Honor of Jaroslaw Pelenski, Janusz Duzinkiewicz, ed. (2004)
  • Co-editor project: co-editor of a 10 volume history of the trans-Appalachian frontier (1995-2007)
  • Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (University of California Press, 1997; Paperback edition, 1998)
  • Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893 (Oxford University Press, 1986; Paperback edition, 1987; Revised edition, University Press of Colorado, 2000)
  • The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 (Oxford University Press, 1978; Paperback edition with new introduction, Wadsworth Press, 1989; Revised edition, Indiana University Press, forthcoming)
  • "The Continuing Search for the American West: Historians Past, Present, and Future" in Old West/New West: Quo Vadis, Gene M. Gressley, ed. (High Plains Publishing Company, 1994)
  • The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837 (Oxford University Press, 1968; Paperback edition with new introduction, Wadsworth Press, 1989)
  • "Diversity and Unity in the Old Northwest, 1790-1850: Several Peoples Fashion a Single Region" in Pathways to the Old Northwest (1988)

Awards & Service

  • Senior NEH Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (2004-2005)
  • Award of Merit, Western History Association (2001)
  • Global Scholar Award, University of Iowa (1998-1999)
  • Ray Allen Billington Prize (co-winner, for Days of Gold), Organization of American Historians (1999)
  • John and Laree Caughey Book Prize (for Days of Gold), Western History Association (1998)
  • Rodman W. Paul Award, Mining History Society (1997)
  • Fellow, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (Spring 1997)
  • Huntington-NEH Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (1986-1987)
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