History : Historiography

In To America , Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the country's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as an American historian and explains what an historian's job is all about. He celebrates America's spirit, which has carried us so far. He confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled our history and made the United States a model for the world. more...

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Well-known media analyst Eric Burns looks at how journalists have misreported history in this follow-up to his critically acclaimed book Infamous Scribblers. In Infamous Scribblers, Eric Burns revealed how early American journalists represented and misrepresented the events and leaders of the day in coverage that was partisan, fabricated, scandalous, and sensationalistic, and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable. Now he puts the media under the microscope again, from Ben Franklin and Sam Adams through Mark Twain, William Randolph Hearst, H. L. Mencken, and Walter Duranty (arguably the most unethical journalist to win a Pulitzer) to the modern day. He shows how the media got history wrong and how those mistakes have been magnified and distorted over time, changing our view and understanding of the past. Eric Burns (New York, NY), a media critic and journalist, is the former host of Fox News's acclaimed Fox News Watch and a veteran of NBC Nightly News, Today, and Entertainment Tonight. He has written on media and popular culture for the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, the Weekly Standard, Family Circle, and other publications. His books include Infamous Scribblers (978-1-58648-334-0) and Virtue, Valor, and Vanity (978-1-55970-858-6). more...

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Introduction, William Leuchtenburg. Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents, Paul Boller, Jr. A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town, T. H. Breen. Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South, William H. Chafe. World War II Normandy: American Cemetery and Memorial, James C. Cobb. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C., Robert Dallek. The Americanized Mannheim of 1945-1946, David Brion Davis. Vassar College, Carl N. Degler. A Fan's Homage to Fenway, John Demos. Finding History in Woodside, California, Paula S. Fass. Boston Common, David Fischer. Charleston, William Freehling. Climbing Stone Mountain, Louis R. Harlan. Memphis, Tennessee, Kenneth T. Jackson. Illinois' Old State Capitol: A Tale of Two Speeches, Robert W. Johannsen. "A Little Journey": Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Community at East Aurora, New York, Michael Kammen. San Juan Island, Washington, David M. Kennedy. 1048 Fifth Avenue, Alice Kessler-Harris. Queens, William E. Leuchtenburg. Gettysburg, James M. McPherson. Monticello, Merrill D. Peterson. The Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood, Kevin Starr. The Polo Ground, Jules Tygiel. Graceland, Joel Williamson. Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, Sean Wilentz. Montgomery, C. Vann Woodward. The Grand Canyon, Donald Worster. Sewanee - How to Make a Yankee Southern: Memories of the 1940s, Bertram Wyatt-Brown more...

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The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume.:.; Presents a study of modernity that examines classical influences.; Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychological theories.; Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, including Adam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud. more...

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In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully chronicle led, in many cases, to the invention of new fields—including women’s and gender history, social history, and public history—that cleared paths in the academy and made the study of the past more capacious and broadly relevant. In these stories—skillfully compiled and introduced by James Banner and John Gillis—aspiring historians will find inspiration and guidance, experienced scholars will see reflections of their own dilemmas and struggles, and all readers will discover a rare account of how today’s seasoned historians embarked on their intellectual journeys. more...

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