Stephen Haycox
{{short description|American historian}}
Stephen Walter Haycox is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), author, and columnist for the Anchorage Daily News.{{Cite web|url=http://www.adn.com/pb/author/steve-haycox/|title=Steve Haycox|website=Anchorage Daily News}} He has written about the history of Alaska.
He was born in the Upper Midwest and went to high school in a suburb of New York. He was a musician in the Navy and served in the Pacific. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.{{Cite web|url=http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/articles/s_haycox2/EthnicTypeFtnts.htm|title=Alaskool|website=www.alaskool.org}}
His book Battleground Alaska explores conflict between state's rights and federalism in environmental policy.{{r|ba}} His book Frigid Embrace contrasts the non-native Alaskans who come to the state for profit in often exploitative natural resource industries against the indigenous residents lifestyles of people who are permanent residents.{{r|fe}}
Haycox is interviewed in the documentary film The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced. He received the Alaska Governor's Humanities Award in 2003, the University of Alaska Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence in 2002, was named the Alaska Historical Society's Historian of the Year in 2003, and was named a distinguished professor at UAA.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thenorthernlight.org/gettingtoknowhistoryprofessorstevehaycox/|title=Getting to know history professor Steve Haycox | The Northern Light|first=Ken|last=Burleson}}
Books
Haycox is the author of:
- A Warm Past: Travels in Alaska History, Fifty Essays (Press North, 1988)
- Alaska: An American Colony (University of Washington Press, 2002){{r|ac}}
- Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska (Oregon State University Press, 2002){{r|fe}}
- Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness (University Press of Kansas, 2016){{r|ba}}
His edited works include:
- Melvin Ricks' Alaska Bibliography: An Introductory Guide to Alaskan Historical Literature (edited with Betty J. Haycox, Alaska Historical Commission, 1977){{r|ab}}
- An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past (edited with Mary Childers Mangusso, University of Washington Press, 1996){{r|aa}}
- Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741–1805 (edited with James K. Barnett and Caedmon Liburd, Cook Inlet Historical Society, 1997){{r|ex}}
References
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Review of An Alaska Anthology:
- Eric J. Karolak, Western Historical Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/970925}}, {{jstor|970925}}
Reviews of Melvin Ricks' Alaska Bibliography:
- Louis Flannery, Oregon Historical Quarterly, {{jstor|20613597}}
- Arthur E. Hippler, American Indian Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/1183777}}, {{jstor|1183777}}
- Alan Edward Schorr, Western Historical Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/967140}}, {{jstor|967140}}
Reviews of Alaska: An American Colony:
- Gordon B. Dodds, Pacific Historical Review, {{doi|10.1525/phr.2003.72.4.635}}
- Ted C. Hinckley, Western Historical Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/25047314}}, {{jstor|25047314}}
- Kathryn Morse, Oregon Historical Quarterly, {{jstor|20615303}}
- Claus-M. Naske, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, {{jstor|40491715}}
Reviews of Battleground Alaska:
- Sara Dant, Environmental History, {{jstor|45172490}}
- Brian Allen Drake, The American Historical Review, {{jstor|26576787}}
- Kathryn Morse, Western Historical Quarterly, {{jstor|26782884}}
- William H. Mullins, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, {{jstor|44790769}}
- Andrew Stuhl, Pacific Historical Review, {{jstor|26419917}}
- Laura A. Watt, The Journal of American History, {{doi|10.1093/jahist/jax127}}, {{jstor|48548402}}
Reviews of Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific:
- William H. Adams, Historical Archaeology, {{jstor|25616762}}
- Herbert K. Beals, Oregon Historical Quarterly, {{jstor|20614944}}
- Daniel Clayton, Ecumene, {{jstor|44252055}}
- James R. Gibson, Pacific Historical Review, {{doi|10.2307/3641760}}, {{jstor|3641760}}
- Mott Greene, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, {{jstor|40492476}}
- Ted C. Hinckley, Western Historical Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/971348}}, {{jstor|971348}}
- Michael Butt, H-Net Reviews, [https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=8613]
- Terrence Cole, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, {{jstor|40491693}}
- Sandra McDermott, The Public Historian, {{doi|10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.169}}, {{jstor|10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.169}}
- Deniel Nelson, Environmental History, {{doi|10.2307/3985729}}, {{jstor|3985729}}
- Hal Rothman, Oregon Historical Quarterly, {{jstor|20615373}}
- John S. Whitehead, Western Historical Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/25047261}}, {{jstor|25047261}}
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