American Intellectual Histories and Historians

Robert Allen Skotheim

Published by Princeton University Press 1966

American Intellectual Histories and Historians

Robert Allen Skotheim

Volume 1357 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400872046

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This study of American intellectual histories sketches their development from colonial chronicles to today's professional scholarship. It concentrates upon the writings of a dozen or more major historians between the late 1800's and the middle 1900's who have contributed to the study of the history of ideas in America, including Moses Coit Tyler, Edward Eggleston, Charles Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Farrington, Merle Curti, Perry Miller, and Ralph Gabriel. The various histories are analyzed partly from the perspective of a developing scholarly discipline and partly from the perspective of the "climate of opinion" in which the histories were written. The methods employed by the historians in studying ideas, as well as the substantive interpretations expressed in the histories, are analyzed in relation to the "world-views" or "ideological positions" of the historians themselves.

Originally published in 1966.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chapter One. Early American Chroniclers and Historians, 1600's-1800's Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter Two. The Progressive Tradition in the Twentieth Century, I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter Three. The Progressive Tradition, II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter Four. Challenges to the Progressive Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter Five. Signs of Convergence and New Directions Since the 1940's Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
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