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Robin Winks

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Robin W. Winks (December 5, 1930 in Indiana – April 7, 2003 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American academic, historian, diplomat, and writer on the subject of fiction, especially detective novels. [1]

40 relations: American Historical Association, Athenaeum Club, London, Berkeley College (Yale University), C. Vann Woodward, Canadian Historical Association, Detective fiction, Fiction, Fulbright Program, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, Historian, Indiana, James R. Rush, Johns Hopkins University, Latin honors, Marcus Cunliffe, New Haven, Connecticut, OCLC, Organization of American Historians, Oxford University Press, Phi Beta Kappa, Philip Mansel, Pulitzer Prize, R. J. Q. Adams, Randolph Townsend, Royal Commonwealth Society, Royal Historical Society, Sacvan Bercovitch, Social Darwinism, Society of American Historians, Special Forces Club, Teofilo Ruiz, The Explorers Club, University of Colorado, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Oxford, Victoria University of Wellington, WorldCat, Yale University, Yale University Press.

American Historical Association

The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States.

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Athenaeum Club, London

The Athenaeum is a private members' club in London, founded in 1824.

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Berkeley College (Yale University)

Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, opened in 1934.

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C. Vann Woodward

Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations.

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Canadian Historical Association

The Canadian Historical Association (CHA; French Société historique du Canada, SHC) is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Fiction

Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History

The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in American history at the University of Oxford, tenable for one year.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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James R. Rush

James Robert Rush is an American historian, writer, editor, researcher, essayist, consultant and professor.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Latin honors

Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Marcus Cunliffe

Marcus Falkner Cunliffe (1922–1990) was a British scholar who specialized in cultural and military American Studies.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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OCLC

OCLC, currently incorporated as OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated, is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs".

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Organization of American Historians

The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel (born 1951) is a historian of courts and cities, and the author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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R. J. Q. Adams

Ralph James Quincy Adams (born September 22, 1943), usually known as R. J. Q. Adams, is an American historian, writer, historiographer, and professor.

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Randolph Townsend

Randolph Townsend (born January 24, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Republican Party politician from Nevada.

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Royal Commonwealth Society

The Royal Commonwealth Society is a non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote the value of the Commonwealth and the values upon which it is based.

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Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society (abbr. RHistS; founded 1868) is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.

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Sacvan Bercovitch

Sacvan Bercovitch (October 4, 1933 – December 9, 2014) was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States.

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Social Darwinism

The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society.

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Society of American Historians

The Society of American Historians, founded in 1939, encourages and honors literary distinction in the writing of history and biography about American topics.

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Special Forces Club

The Special Forces Club (SFC) is a private members club located in Knightsbridge, London.

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Teofilo Ruiz

Teofilo F. Ruiz (born 1943) is a Cuban-American medieval historian and professor, currently at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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The Explorers Club

The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study.

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University of Colorado

The University of Colorado system is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of four campuses: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington (Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand.

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WorldCat

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Winks

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