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Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history; Daniel Walker Howe - political and intellectual history of the early republic and antebellum period; Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)
20th-century historians by nationality (93 C) A. 20th-century antiquarians (74 P) 20th-century archaeologists (15 C, 381 P) B. 20th-century biographers (14 C, 72 P) M.
Starting with Edward Channing at Harvard in the early 20th century, the new university departments of history adopted much of the old style. What was new was a demand for finished PhD dissertations, a deemphasis on drama and color, and an insistence on using primary sources, as tracked through footnotes.
The Progressive historians were a group of 20th century historians of the United States associated with a historiographical tradition that embraced an economic interpretation of American history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most prominent among these was Charles A. Beard , who was influential in academia and with the general public.
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), labor, political history, cultural history, economic history, social history, history of philosophy Anna Lewis (1885–1961), South-western US Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography
Readman (2009) discusses the historiography of British political history in the 20th century. He describes how British political scholarship mostly ignored 20th century history due to temporal proximity to the recent past, the unavailability of primary sources, and the potential for bias.
In political studies, since the mid 20th-century, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus on presidential achievements ...
Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.