WEEK TWO

September 8, 2004

HISTORIOGRAPHY, I

Required:

Novick, That Noble Dream, Parts I & II.

Recommended:

Thomas Bender, "'Venturesome and Cautious': American History in the 1990s," Journal of American History 81 (December 1994), 992-1003.
Ellen Fitzpatrick, History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880-1980 (2002)
Henry Glassie, "The Practice and Purpose of History," Journal of American History 81 (December 1994), 961-976.
John Higham, History: Professional Scholarship in America (updated paperback edition, 1989).
Michael Kammen, "The Problem of Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration," American Quarterly 45 (1993).
David Thelan, "The Practice of American History," Journal of American History 81 (December 1994), 933-960.
 
 

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