"No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does." - Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz. "A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have." - Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware.
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No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does.
(Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz )A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have.
(Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware )
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It is clear in retrospect that amateur and professional historians operate very differently, and that the shift from one kind of leadership to the other has not been all clear gain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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It is clear in retrospect that amateur and professional historians operate very differently, and that the shift from one kind of leadership to the other has not been all clear gain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early professional historians, conservative evolutionists, patrician historians, gressive historians, progressive scholarship, postwar historians, progressive historiography, imperial school, historical profession, amateur scholars, scientific historians, professional scholarship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Civil War, American Historical Association, New England, New York, New Historians, American Revolution, Henry Adams, Frederick Jackson Turner, Latin American, Annual Report, American Historical Review, Columbia University, Herbert Baxter Adams, Carl Becker, James Harvey Robinson, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Carnegie Institution, Johns Hopkins, Library of Congress, Allan Nevins, James Truslow Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Channing New!
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- American History: A Survey MP w/PowerWeb by Alan Brinkley on page 139, page 240, and page 257
- Stamp Act Crisis by E. S. Morgan on page 219, and page 224
- Historical Scholarship in the United States and Other Essays by W. Holt on page 12, and page 37
- Theodore Roosevelt (The Bestsellers of 1920) by William Roscoe Thayer on page 71, and page 104
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- History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880-1980 by Ellen Fitzpatrick on 6 pages
- Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline by Peter Lambert on 4 pages
- The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian England (Studies in Historiography) by Anthony Brundage on page 168, and Back Matter
- Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979: A Historian's Biography (Studies in Gender and History) by John G. Reid in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization by Ernst Breisach on page 216, and Back Matter
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