- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History
- Introduction
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6 The Most Appropriate Subjects for Study -
7 The Persistence of Political History -
8 The Continental Empire and the Global Power -
9 Economic History and American Historians -
10 The Battle for Military History -
11 The Challenges to Traditional Histories -
12 Social History and Intellectual History -
13 The Long and Influential Life of Social History in the MVHR and the JAH -
14 The MVHR, the JAH, and Intellectual History -
15 Immigration and the Tattered Narrative of Progressive History -
16 The Slow Rise to Prominence of African American History -
17 Women’s History -
18 The Presence of Native American History -
19 The Wild One -
20 The History That Dare Not Speak Its Name -
21 How Discipline Change Happens - Afterword
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Appendix - Notes on Contributors
The Most Appropriate Subjects for Study
The Most Appropriate Subjects for Study
- Chapter:
- (p.65) 6 The Most Appropriate Subjects for Study
- Source:
- The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History
- Author(s):
William E. Leuchtenburg
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter provides an introduction to Part II of this book. In this part, the chapters contributing to this celebration of a centennial history confront the challenge of delineating in a few pages the many and diverse currents in their specialties from the dawn of the 20th century in the Edwardian era to the opening decade of a new millennium.
Keywords: American history, Organization of American Historians, centennial history
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History
- Introduction
-
6 The Most Appropriate Subjects for Study -
7 The Persistence of Political History -
8 The Continental Empire and the Global Power -
9 Economic History and American Historians -
10 The Battle for Military History -
11 The Challenges to Traditional Histories -
12 Social History and Intellectual History -
13 The Long and Influential Life of Social History in the MVHR and the JAH -
14 The MVHR, the JAH, and Intellectual History -
15 Immigration and the Tattered Narrative of Progressive History -
16 The Slow Rise to Prominence of African American History -
17 Women’s History -
18 The Presence of Native American History -
19 The Wild One -
20 The History That Dare Not Speak Its Name -
21 How Discipline Change Happens - Afterword
-
Appendix - Notes on Contributors
