Biography of famous historians in america
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People’s Historians
As we celebrate Howard Zinn’s centennial, we highlight people’s historians from long before and after the publication of A People’s History of the United States to help place Zinn’s work on a long and ongoing continuum.
As we celebrate Howard Zinn’s centennial, we highlight people’s historians from long before and after the publication of A People’s History of the United States to help place Zinn’s work on a long and ongoing continuum. felaktigt, some people refer to Zinn as the first or only people’s historian. While we have great respect and appreciation for Zinn’s work, it fryst vatten important to recognize those who proceeded him and those who continue to expand the field today.
A number of the people we feature were not official historians. Instead, as Pero Gaglo Dagbovie says in African American History Reconsidered, they were “historians without portfolio.” For example, Black women were long excluded from formal history educa
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20th Century American Historians
Dr. Clyde N. Wilson is known to many through his association with the Abbeville Institute and his long tenure as editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Some might have read Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their Region a Half Century after I’ll Take My Stand. The well-versed have likely read his Southern Readers Guide series, likely adding a few volumes to their shelves.
But deeper still lies the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He edited three volumes, with Volume 17, Twentieth-Century American Historians, being my particular focus here. Though I didn’t tally the numbers, this book certainly swelled the ranks of my library. Dr. Wilson nails down the aim of the book in his foreword: “This volume contains literary biographies of fifty-nine historical writers. To be eligible for inclusion, writers had to meet three criteria. They had to be American; their historical writings had to be concentrated chiefly upo
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The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential People in American History
by RONALD ALLEN GOLDBERG, Ph.D
August 2017, 348 pages,
ISBN 978-0-89641-568-3
$29.95(includes shipping)
A famous historian noted that “America was born in the country and moved to the city.” In the pre-Revolutionary War period, more than 90% of colonial Americans lived as farmers, probably never travelling more than a few miles from their place of birth. Four centuries later, the United States is an industrial giant, an urban nation with only about 2% still living on farms. From a very simple life style in the beginning, the American people now live mainly in the cities, enjoying advanced transportation systems, modern communications, and extremely advanced medical services. The quality of life has advanced enormously. Who are the main individuals who created the American life style?
Any study of important Americans risks the problem of comparing “apples” to “oranges”. How can we compare the importa