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Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter , 1916-70, American historian, b. Buffalo, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1942 and began teaching there in 1946, becoming full professor in 1952 and De Witt Clinton professor of American history in 1959. One of the most brilliant of 20th-century American historians, h... Read more
Richard Hildreth
Richard Hildreth , 1807-65, American historian, b. Deerfield, Mass. From 1832 to 1838 he was the leading editorial writer for the Boston Daily Atlas. In addition to writing controversial pamphlets and contributing to magazines, Hildreth wrote Banks, Banking, and Paper Currencies (1840); a discus... Read more
Fox sisters
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Sir Henry John Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt 1862-1938, English poet and historian. He is best remembered for his vigorous and imperialistic poems of the sea, collections of which include Admirals All (1897), The Sailing of the Long Ships (1902), and Drake's Drum and Other Songs of the Sea (1914). The centennial h... Read more
Connop Thirlwall
Connop Thirlwall , 1797-1875, English historian. He was bishop of St. David's, Wales, from 1840. His chief work is his History of Greece (8 vol., 1835-44); it was the first truly scholarly survey of Greece in any language. As a historian, Thirlwall was fair and judicious, his scholarship impeccabl... Read more
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Giraldus Cambrensis
Giraldus Cambrensis , c.1146-1223, Norman-Welsh churchman and historian, also called Gerald of Wales and Gerald de Barri. He was associated (from 1184) with the king and court of England. His historical works include two descriptive works on Ireland (resulting from a visit) and Descriptio Cambriae ... Read more
Robin George Collingwood
Robin George Collingwood 1889-1943, English philosopher and historian. From 1908 he was associated with Oxford as student, fellow, lecturer in history, and professor of philosophy. Collingwood believed that philosophy should be rooted in history rather than in formal science, and he attempted to co... Read more
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 1917-2007, American historian and public official, b. Columbus, Ohio, as Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; son of Arthur Meier Schlesinger . He achieved early success as a historian with the publication, the year after his graduation, of his Harvard honors thesis, Orestes... Read more
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owl common name for nocturnal birds of prey found on all continents. Owls superficially resemble short-necked hawks, except that their eyes are directed forward and are surrounded by disks of radiating feathers. This peculiarity lends them an appearance of studious intelligence, and the owl has lon... Read more

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Potsdam Conference
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Austria was also divided into zones. In...of Japan. Some historians believe that the...Soviet security. Historians still debate the extent to which America's unilateral possession...be seen by many historians as marking the... Read more
Beecher, Henry Ward
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...and his exoneration; historians remain divided over whether he was...Mid‐Victorian America, 1840–1870...Middle‐Class America , 1978. Altina L. Waller...Class in Victorian America , 1982. Clifford E... Read more
Iroquois
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...Iroquois League, was an American Indian confederacy made...1754 – 1763). Some historians view the Indian-British...in the conflict. These historians promote the idea that had...Iroquois involvement, North America would have been divided between the French and British. When the ... Read more

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Black Movements in America.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1999; ; 631 words ; ...Pp. 179. $16.95.) Is this America? Land of the Free and Home...hardened protest, fiercely American and defiant of America. But can scholars reduce Fannie...vexing synthesis of African American protest, Black Movements in America. By 1900 (with slavery extinguished...that black political ... Read more
The Quakers in America.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2005; ; 510 words ; ...untangling one of the more perplexing contemporary American religions. Thomas Hamm, undertaking a Herculean...sense of what Quakers believe in contemporary America. Although not a pure American Quaker history as its title might imply, it...Quakers while admitting generalization about American ... Read more
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2006; ; 536 words ; ...Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. By Edward L. Ayers. (New...1860. Franklin went for Lincoln, but a divided Democratic Party still received 44 percent...effort to defeat those who would fire on American soldiers at Fort Sumter. Enthusiasm...all of this, the emergence of African ... Read more
Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/11/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...enthusiasms. Harvard's historians preferred fact to grand...Bloom's Closing of the American Mind than with the antirational...On the one hand, he sees its awful reality quite...of a world hopelessly divided into exploiting males...Manichaean view o the world as divided into perfect Good ... Read more
The View from Pluto: Germans see the world with peculiar eyes.
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/19/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...illegal war of aggression. Americans are from Mars and Europeans...here -- that poodle of the Americans -- and fury that other countries...But then there are those pro-American countries in New Europe, which...united Europe and security from America. Does Prodi really mean that...France's ... Read more
Here Me, See Me.(Thierry de Duve )
Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...presentation in 20th-century art. Over the past decade, Belgian art historian Thierry de Duve has published a trio of books that challenge...des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, was a little worrying, though--historians are not always the best curators (and vice versa). Would...can relate to its viewer. To play out this ... Read more
Country's Divisions, Once So Clear, Are Blurred by Attack.(Survey on patriotism)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...last December: America was split down the middle, divided into two hostile...saw a nation divided in almost every...seems that every. American -- the Legionnaire...in Tribeca - sees the world, and...the same way. America looks less like...distinguished historian Gertrude ... Read more
Love story?(Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/18/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Nelson and June Cleaver haunt historian Stephanie Coontz. Along...Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960, Coontz sees the 1950s Family as the lodestone of American social history and the early...The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia...college-level history and ... Read more
Meeting places, intersections, crossroads, and borders: toward a complex western cultural history.(trends of frontier literature)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; IN 1893, historian Frederick Jackson...Since that time, historians, journalists...frontier and the American West, among...as internally divided as its opponent...interpretations of the American West. These...early-twentieth-century historians, and, conversely...larger view sees ... Read more
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Reason; 6/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...Michael Bellesiles' Arming America ( Disarming History, March...their foolishness. I am no historian, but I have also wondered...People died and property was divided by children, without the...quotes Haverford College historian Roger Lane, a gun control supporter who gave Arming America ca ... Read more