Richard Hildreth, was an American journalist, writer and historian. He is best known for writing his six-volume History of the United States of America covering 1497–1821 and published 1840-1853. Historians consider it a highly accurate political history of the early Republic, but with a strong bias in favor of the Federalist Party and the abolition of slavery. At the time of his death in 1865, he still had many unfinished works.
- Occupation
- journalist, historian, writer, novelist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 28, 1807, June 22, 1807, 1807
- Died
- July 11, 1865, 1865
