A commemoration and a historical mediation

Journal of American History

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1073-1081

  White, Richard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 53949107385     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25095320     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Margot Minardi, "The Inevitable Negro: Making Slavery History in Massachusetts, 1770-1863" (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 2007).
2. Ian Tyrrell, "Public at the Creation: Place, Memory, and Historical Practice in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1907-1950," Journal of American History, 94 (June 2007), 19-46.
3. will use may status as president to avoid citing the huge literature on historical memory; instead, I will just mention my own: Richard White, Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories (Seattle, 2004).
4. John Higham, "Beyond Consensus: The Historian as Moral Critic," American Historical Review, 67 (April 1962), 609.
5. Carl Becker, "Mr. Wells and the New History," American Historical Review, 26 (July 1921), 641-56;
6. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (New York, 1920).
7. Best Seller Lists, 1900-1995, hnp://www.caderbooks.com/bestintro. html;
8. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1918);
9. James Truslow Adams, The Adams Family (New York, 1930).
10. Becker, "Mr. Wells and the New History," 650, 641, 642. This situation had not changed much when Jon Wiener praised the journal Studies on the Left for its desire to "illuminate the present."
11. Jonathan M. Wiener, "Radical Historians and the Crisis in American History, 1959-1980," Journal of American History, 76 (Sept. 1989), 408.
12. J. H. Hexter, "The Historian and His Day," Political Science Quarterly, 69 (June 1954), 219-33.
13. Evaluations and discussions of the new histories are legion. See, for example, Ignacio Olábarri, "'New' New History: A Longue Durée Structure," History and Theory, 34 (Feb. 1994), 1-29;
14. and Thomas Bender, "Wholes and Parts: The Need for Synthesis in American History," Journal of American History, 73 (June 1986), 120-36.
15. Thomas L. Haskell, "Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Rhetoric versus Practice in Peter Novick's That Noble Dream," in Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History, by Thomas L. Haskell (Baltimore, 1998), 145-73.
16. This is, of course, in response to Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (New York, 1988).
17. Quoted in David S. Brown, Richard Hofitadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago, 2006), 97.
18. "News and Comments," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1 (Dec. 1914), 481.
19. " Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (New York, 1968).
20. Brown, Richard Hofitadter, 76-77.
21. Hofstadter, Progressive Historians, 27.
22. Ibid., 29, 43.
23. On Richard Hofstadter and consensus history, see Daniel Joseph Singal, "Beyond Consensus: Richard Hofstadter and American Historiography," American Historical Review, 89 (Oct. 1984), 976-1004.
24. Hoftstadter, Progressive Historians, 443.
25. John Higham made these points before Hofstadter in Higham, "Beyond Consensus," 611-15.
26. David Joseph Singal sees Hofstadter as embracing complexity. Singal, "Beyond Consensus," 978.
27. For examples of the bitterness of the period, see Wiener, "Radical Historians and the Crisis in American History," 399-434.
28. Hoftstadter, Progressive Historians, 27, 438-40.
29. Higham, "Beyond Consensus," 610.
30. Sam Tanenhaus, "History, Written in the Present Tense," New York Times, March 4, 2007, week in review section, p. 1.
31. Brown, Richard Hofstadter, 86;
32. Higham, "Beyond Consensus," 616.
33. Hofstadter quoted in Brown, Richard Hofstadter, 86-87.
34. Singal, "Beyond Consensus," 983, 988.
35. Brown, Richard Hofstadter, 182.
36. Walter Johnson, "On Agency," Journal of Social History, 37 (Fall 2003), 113-24.