| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
2 volumes ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Harper torchbooks. The Academy library, TB1255M-TB1256M
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Harper torchbooks. Academy library ; TB1255M-TB1256M.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
v.1. pt.1. : The nature and uses of history. The humaneness of history / Arthur Bestor -- An historian looks at social change / William B. Willcox -- Causation and the American Civil War / Lee Benson & Cushing Strout -- The Confederate myth / Frank E. Vandiver -- pt.2. : Objectivity and truth in history. Some problems raised by historical relativism / Bert J. Loewenberg -- The historian and his day / J. H. Hexter -- The historian and history / Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. -- pt.3. : The history of American history-Turner and Beard. A science of American history / Edward N. Saveth -- How the frontier shaped the American character : Turner's frontier hypothesis / Ray Allen Billington -- Beard and the Constitution : The history of an idea / Richard Hofstadter -- pt.4. : Rewriting the American past. Should American history be rewritten? / Allen Nevins & Matthew Josephson -- The cult of the American consensus : homogenizing our history / John Hingham -- Political experience and enlightenment in eighteenth-century America / Bernard Bailyn --The Abolitionists and psychology / Martin Duberman -- The Roosevelt reconsruction : retrospect / William E. Leuchtenburg -- v.2. pt.5. : The varieties of history. American intellectual history : A critical appraisal / John Higham -- What is business history? / Arthur H. Cole -- The historian and the American urban tradition / Charles N. Glabb -- The nature of biography / John A. Garraty -- The biographer's craft / Frank B. Tolles -- pt.6. : History and the other disciplines. History and the Social Sciences / Thomas C. Cochran -- American history and social science / A. S. Eisenstadt -- History as human behavior / Samuel P. Hays -- The next assignment / William L. Langer -- Can Amerian studies develop a method? / Henry Nash Smith -- The historical dimension / C. Vann Woodward -- pt.7. : The problems of the working historian : A comment / Bernard Bailyn -- The historical seminar : Its outer shell and its inner spirit / Walter Presscott Webb -- Early town records of New England as historical sources / Douglas E. Leach -- American labor history prior to the Civil War : Sources and opportunities for research / Richard B. Morris -- The life and soul of history / Merrill Jensen, Samuel Flagg Bemis, & David Donald -- History this side the horizon / Allan Nevins -- The experience of writing history / George F. Kennan. |
| Subject |
United States -- Historiography.
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United States. |
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Historiography. |
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