HISTORY IN DECAY.(teaching history in universities)

Quadrant | July 1, 1999| | Copyright

THE IMMINENT DEATH of history in universities and schools has been heralded regularly over the last half-century. If not dead, it was said to be on its deathbed. But are we witnessing a protracted death, a prolonged illness, or a traumatic transfiguration? Certainly I am not writing an obituary. That would be premature. But a diagnosis of the sickness might suggest the chances of a partial remission.

The crisis in history can be distinguished at three levels -- in historiography, the writing of history; in the academic study of history in universities; and in the ...

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