AHR roundtable historians and biography

American Historical Review

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 573-578

  Nasaw, David ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 70249150418     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.3.573     Document Type: Editorial

References (29)

1. Robert Schneider to David Nasaw et al., personal communication, June 2007.
2. Robert Schneider to David Nasaw et al., personal communication, June 2007. Ibid.
3. Judith M. Brown, "'Life Histories' and the History of Modern South Asia," this issue, 588.
4. Nick Salvatore, "Biography and Social History: An Intimate Relationship," Labour History 87 (November 2004), http://www. historycooperative.org/journals/lab/87/salvatore.html, para. 2.
5. Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. 1:1884-1933 (New York, 1992);
6. Martin Duberman, Paul Robeson: A Biography (New York, 1989);
7. John Patrick Diggins, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History (New York, 2007);
8. Jules Tygiel, Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (New York, 1983).
9. Salvatore, "Biography and Social History," para. 9.
10. Oscar Handlin, Truth in History (Cambridge, Mass., 1979), 276;
11. see also on this point Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History? (New York, 1951), 58-59.
12. Handlin, Truth in History, 266.
13. Carl Rollyson, Biography: A User's Guide (Chicago, 2008), 48, 140-144. In a personal exchange with the author, Wreszin says that the primary reason he did not discuss these "affairs" was that he had no credible evidence they had ever taken place.
14. Jo Burr Margadant, ed., The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France (Berkeley, Calif., 2000), 1.
15. Liana Vardi, "Rewriting the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Economists," this issue, 653.
16. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "Editor's Note," in John Patrick Diggins, John Adams (New York, 2003), xviii.
17. See, for example, Labour History 87 (November 2004)
18. or the H-Net call for papers for "Round-table on 'The Subject and Critical Feminist Biography,'" Journal of Women's History, http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=159661.
19. Robin Fleming, "Writing Biography at the Edge of History," this issue, 611.
20. Margadant, The New Biography, 7.
21. Alice Kessler-Harris, "Why Biography?" this issue, 627.
22. Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "Comment on A Crooked Line;" American Historical Review 113, no. 2 (April 2008): 411.
23. Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "Comment on A Crooked Line;" American Historical Review 113, no. 2 (2008): Ibid., 412.
24. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Structure of Behavior, trans. Alden Fisher (Boston, 1963), 175.
25. E. P. Thompson, Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (New York, 1993), xxix.
26. Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (New York, 1963), 15.
27. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology, Part One, ed. C. J. Arthur (New York, 1970), 59.
28. Virginia Woolf, "The Art of Biography" (1939), in Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (New York, 1942), 192.
29. Virginia Woolf, "The Art of Biography" (1939) The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, Ibid., 195-197.