Title Past imperfect : facts, fictions, and fraud in the writing of American history / Peter Charles Hoffer.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E175 .H54 2004	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xiv, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-272) and index.
Contents	I: Facts and fictions -- The rise of consensus history -- Professions of history -- The new history and its promoters -- In the eye of the storm -- II: Fraud -- Falsification: the case of Michael Bellesiles -- Plagiarism: the cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin -- Fabrication: the case of Joseph Ellis -- The future of the past.
Subject	United States -- Historiography.
	United States.
	Historiography.
	United States -- History -- Philosophy.
	History.
	Philosophy.
	Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Historiography -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Historiography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Historiography -- Political aspects.
	Historians -- United States -- Biography.
	Historians.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Bellesiles, Michael A.
	Bellesiles, Michael A.
	Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
	Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
	Ambrose, Stephen E.
	Ambrose, Stephen E.
	Ellis, Joseph J.
	Ellis, Joseph J.
	Professional ethics -- United States -- Case studies.
	Professional ethics.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
	Biographies.
	Case studies.
ISBN	1586482440