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      The Emergence of a New Historical Society

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      Reconstructing History book

      The Emergence of a New Historical Society
      Edited ByElizabeth Fox-Genovese, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1999
      eBook Published 20 December 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315786858
      Pages 400
      eBook ISBN 9781315786858
      Subjects Humanities
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      Fox-Genovese, E., & Lasch-Quinn, E. (Eds.). (1999). Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315786858

      ABSTRACT

      In May 1997, a group of distinguished historians 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 characterize the profession. Eugene Genovese, Prsident of the Society, explained the commitment to form a new and genuinely diverse organization. "The Society extends from left to right and embraces people of every ideological and political tendency. The Society promotes frank debate in an atmosphere of civility, mutual respect, and common courtesy. All we require is that participants lay down plausible premises; reason logically; appeal to evidence; and prepare to exchange criticism with those who hold different points of view. Our goal: to promote an integrated history accessible to the public." From those beginnings, the Society has grown to include hundreds of members from every level of the profession, from Pulitzer-prize winning scholars to graduate students, across the ideological and political spectrum.

      In this first book from the Historical Society, several founding members explore central topics within the field; the enduring value of the practice of history; the sensitive use of historical records, sources, and archives; the value of common standards; and much more. An engaging and challenging work that will appeal to scholars, students, educators, and the many public readers who have become lost in the culture wars, Reconstructing History is sure to generate the kind of civil, reasoned debate that is a foundational goal of the Historical Society.

      Contributors include Walter A. McDougall, Marc Trachtenberg, Alan Charles Kors, Deborah A. Symonds, Leo P. Ribuffo, Bruce Kuklick, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Edward Berkowitz, John Patrick Diggins, John Womack, Victor Davis Hanson, Miriam R. Levin, Martin J. Sklar, Eugene D. Genovese, Daniel C. Littlefield, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Russell Jacoby, Rochelle Gurstein, Paul Rahe, Donald Kagan, Diane Ravitch, Sean Wilentz, Louis Ferleger and Richard H. Steckel.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part Part I|34 pages

      The Imperative: The Historical Society as a Critique and a New Ideal

      chapter Chapter 1|3 pages

      A New Departure

      ByEugene D. Genovese

      chapter Chapter 2|3 pages

      The Past under Siege

      A Historian Ponders the State of His Profession—And What to Do about It
      ByMarc Trachtenberg

      chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

      The Future of History in an Increasingly Unified World

      ByAlan Charles Kors

      chapter Chapter 4|5 pages

      Politics and Multiculturalism

      ByDaniel c. Littlefield

      chapter Chapter 5|12 pages

      Democracy in the Ivory Tower?

      Toward the Restoration of an Intellectual Community
      ByElisabeth Lasch-Quinn

      part Part II|104 pages

      History and the Contemporary Intellectual Milieu

      chapter Chapter 6|16 pages

      History in a Postmodern World

      ByElizabeth Fox-Genovese

      chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

      On the Obsolescence of "Puritanism" as an Epithet

      ByRochelle Gurstein

      chapter Chapter 8|23 pages

      Postmodernist History

      ByGertrude Himmelfarb

      chapter Chapter 9|25 pages

      A New Intellectual History?

      ByRussell Jacoby

      chapter Chapter 10|20 pages

      Henry Louis Gates, Sterling Brown, and the Professional Languages of African American Literary Criticism

      ByPhillip M. Richards

      part Part III|98 pages

      Meditations on the Practice of History

      chapter Chapter 11|21 pages

      Confessions of an Accidental (or Perhaps Overdetermined) Historian

      ByLeo P. Ribuffo

      chapter Chapter 12|12 pages

      Living in the Scottish Record Office

      ByDeborah A. Symonds

      chapter Chapter 13|13 pages

      Writing the History of Practice

      The Humanities and Baseball, with a Nod to Wrestling
      ByBruce Kuklick

      chapter Chapter 14|13 pages

      The Dilemmas of the Contemporary Military Historian

      ByVictor Davis Hanson

      chapter Chapter 15|12 pages

      Aristotle and the Study of History: A Manifesto

      ByPaul A. Rahe

      chapter Chapter 16|12 pages

      What is a Liberal Education?

      ByDonald Kagan

      chapter Chapter 17|11 pages

      The Death of Jane Addams

      ByEdward Berkowitz

      part Part IV|62 pages

      An Educational Mission: Standards for the Teaching of History

      chapter Chapter 18|11 pages

      The Controversy over National History Standards

      ByDiane Ravitch

      chapter Chapter 19|23 pages

      The National History Standards

      ByJohn Patrick Diggins

      chapter Chapter 20|6 pages

      Clio Banished? Battles over History in the Schools

      BySean Wilentz

      chapter Chapter 21|17 pages

      Whose History? Whose Standards?

      ByWalter A. McDougall

      part Part V|71 pages

      Historians at Work

      chapter Chapter 22|18 pages

      Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America

      The Formative Era, 1890-1916
      ByMartin J. Sklar

      chapter Chapter 23|25 pages

      Center and Periphery in the History of Science

      ByMiriam R. Levin

      chapter Chapter 24|14 pages

      Work in the Moctezuma Brewery

      ByJohn Womack

      chapter Chapter 25|9 pages

      Faulkner's South: Is There Truth in Fiction?

      ByLouis Ferleger, Richard H. Steckel
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