Carl J. Richard
Carl J. Richard is a professor of History at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 1988. His books include The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Harvard, 1994), Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation’ s Thought (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States (Harvard, 2009), and Why We’ re All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
