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Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...
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.
Consensus history is a term used to define a style of American historiography and classify a group of historians who emphasize the basic unity of American values and the American national character and downplay conflicts, especially conflicts along class lines, as superficial and lacking in complexity.
The consensus around the classical documentary hypothesis has now collapsed. [5] This was triggered in large part by the influential publications of John Van Seters , Hans Heinrich Schmid , and Rolf Rendtorff in the mid-1970s, [ 7 ] who argued that J was to be dated no earlier than the time of the Babylonian captivity (597–539 BCE), [ 8 ] and ...
Trained as a physician, he was a moderate Federalist in politics. Messer (2002) examines the transition in Ramsay's republican perspective from his History of the American Revolution (1789) and his biography of Washington (1807) to his more conservative History of the United States (3 vol. 1816–17), which was part of his 12-volume world ...
Tilly, Charles. "The Old New Social History and the New Old Social History," Review 7 (3), Winter 1984: 363-406 ; Tilly, Charles. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (1984). Timmins, Geoffrey. "The Future of Learning and Teaching in Social History: the Research Approach and Employability." Journal of Social History 2006 39(3): 829 ...
The term has also been applied widely in historical disciplines outside of British history (e.g. in the history of science) to describe "any subjection of history to what is essentially a teleological view of the historical process". [3] When the term is used in contexts other than British history, "whig history" (lowercase) is preferred. [3]
At the end of his life, Bailyn disclosed that he had "wrote out" an array of possible approaches to history, "republican government," and popular sovereignty in the United States "and buried one of them in a small book on the history of education published in 1960." [3] According to Bailyn, colonial and U.S. education had nourished a "distrust ...