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Walter Stitt Robinson
A historian of colonial America, military veteran, and longtime University of Kansas professor, he wrote widely on the early American frontier, Native treaty history, and the people who shaped the colonial South. His work combined careful scholarship with a strong sense of how institutions and conflicts developed over time.
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Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699
by Walter Stitt Robinson
About the author
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1917, Walter Stitt Robinson studied at Davidson College and the University of Virginia before serving in World War II. During the war he became a captain in the 82nd Airborne Division, saw combat in Europe, and received the Bronze Star.
After the war, he completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia and went on to a long academic career at the University of Kansas, where he later chaired the history department. He published eleven books and more than thirty articles, building a reputation as a respected scholar of colonial American history.
His books included work on the southern colonial frontier, a biography of Governor James Glen of South Carolina, and major volumes on early American Indian treaties and laws. Grants, fellowships, and university honors recognized the depth of his research, which helped illuminate the political and cultural history of early America.