| Description |
xxii, 377 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A new departure / Eugene D. Genovese -- The past under siege: a historian ponders the state of his profession -- and what to do about it / Marc Trachtenberg -- The future of history in an increasingly unified world / Alan Charles Kors -- Politics and multiculturalism / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Democracy in the ivory tower? Toward the restoration of an intellectual community / Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn -- History in a postmodern world / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- On the obsolescence of "Puritanism" as an epithet / Rochelle Gurstein -- Postmodernist history / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- A new intellectual history? / Russell Jacoby -- Henry Louis Gates, Sterling Brown, and the professional languages of African American literary criticism / Phillip M. Richards -- Confessions of an accidental (or perhaps overdetermined) historian / Leo P. Ribuffo -- Living in the Scottish Record Office / Deborah A. Symonds -- Writing the history of practice: the humanities and baseball, with a nod to wrestling / Bruce Kuklick -- The dilemmas of the contemporary military historian / Victor Davis Hanson -- Aristotle and the study of history: a manifesto / Paul A. Rahe -- What is a liberal education? / Donald Kagan -- The death of Jane Addams / Edward Berkowitz -- The controversy over national history standards / Diane Ravitch -- The National History Standards / John Patrick Diggins -- Clio banished? Battles over history in the schools / Sean Wilentz -- Whose history? Whose standards? / Walter A. McDougall -- Capitalism and socialism in the emergence of modern America: the formative era, 1890-1916 / Martin J. Sklar -- Center and periphery in the history of science / Miriam R. Levin -- Work in the Moctezuma Brewery / John Womack -- Faulkner's South: is there truth in fiction? / Louis Ferleger / Richard H. Steckel |
| Summary |
"In May 1998, a group of prominent scholars announced the formation of the Historical Society, an organization that sought to be free of the jargon-laden debates and political agendas that have come to distance so many readers from their interest in historical scholarship." "In this first book from the Historical Society, several founding members explore central topics in the field, including the sensitive use of historical records, sources, and archives; the debates over teaching history in the public schools; the enduring value of the practice of history; and much more. Reconstructing History is sure to challenge and inform scholars, students, educators, and the many general readers who have become lost in the culture wars."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences and history.
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Intellectual life -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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History.
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| Author |
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
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Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth.
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| LC no. |
99024892 |
| ISBN |
041592278X |
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0415922798 |
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