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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
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Fox sisters
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Sir Henry John Newbolt
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Connop Thirlwall
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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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Beecher, Henry Ward
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...his exoneration; historians remain divided over whether he...the ministry. See also Beecher...x2010;Victorian America, 1840–...x2010;Class America , 1978. Altina...Class in Victorian America , 1982. Clifford...
Iroquois
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...x2013; 1763). Some historians view the Indian-British...the conflict. These historians promote the idea that...involvement, North America would have been divided between the French and...to lands in Ontario. See also:
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...extent to which America's unilateral possession...aggravated by America's atomic monopoly...be seen by many historians as marking the emergence...of the Cold War . See also Hiroshima and...
Assimilation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...adopted Chicago concepts. The historian Oscar Handlin's The Uprooted...the early 1980s, however, historians cautiously revisited assimilation...Some depicted a pluralistic America with room for assimilative...greater unity to an ethnically divided working class. By the end...factor in ethnic ...
Vespucci, Amerigo
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...began his voyage to America, so Ghirlandaio...young — to see them himself. First...mapmakers) and historians of the time. If...somewhere in Central America. This would predate...probability, voyaged to America at the time noted...Islands and then divided forces in the ...
Amerigo Vespucci
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1512), for whom America is named, is no...began voyaging to America, so Ghirlandaio...longer young, to see them himself...cartographers and historians of the time. Alberto...probability, voyaged to America at the time ascribed...Islands and then divided forces in the Atlantic...

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Civil War
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...CIVIL WAR CIVIL WAR. Historians have long debated the...avowed their desire to see slavery abolished. Southern...slavery." Slavery had divided families, religions...Confederate States of America. The convention chose...Confederate States of America insisted that "the negro...
Long, Stephen H., Explorations of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Pike's Peak. The party then divided into two groups that turned...to a wider audience. Some historians have chastised Long for characterizing...Rocky Mountains. March of America Facsimile Series, no. 65...Press, 1980. Monica Rico See also Explorations and Expeditions...

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Historians divided over whether Kennedy assassination is losing its resonance.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...the horror that America experienced on Nov...assassination draws near, historians and others familiar...Kennedy legacy are divided over whether the...represented the end of America's innocence...that foreshadowed America's discontents...Lubin said. "I see the film as a 26...
History and the Christian Historian.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Christian historians who have consciously...The Wars of America: Christian...Christian historian as one who...questions, to "see what others...Christian historians "see." The essays are divided into three...Christian historians "will not...Christian historian's ...
PERSPECTIVE; Turning point of historical footnote? Fate of next presidency up in the air.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 11/5/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...contests have so divided historians as the Election...nation is closely divided between Republican...Appleton, Wis., sees it otherwise...or risk upsetting America's latter-day...are more likely to see decisions based...and defining about America. "I believe that...
How will history see election?(Special Report)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/17/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...news for weeks - remain as divided as ever politically, say historians and political scientists...focused as it ever has been on America's unusual and remarkable...Never before, observes historian Shawn Lay, has a modern election...nation that is politically divided in half, with one group ...
Historian . . . and history-maker
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/12/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...most influential historian of Jacksonian democracy...most influential historians of any sort" in...from being a good historian." He was just...Schlesinger had divided loyalties at the...invitation no American historian could resist...explains: "to see how decisions were...adviser on ...
In the Electricity of Politics, Nixon Was a Transformer; Historians Must Weigh Contradictions
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/24/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...impossible. America's 37th president...in which the historian - not the subject...of a bitterly divided Republican Party...not sure we historians are any better...dispute: Some historians emphasize the...trust; others see Nixon as a victim...An example: Historians of ...
Navigating Worm History: Historians Create a Global Past.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Navigating Worm History: Historians Create a Global...departments are divided by regional and...studies, in which historians have opened up new...particularly in North America, because history...184). He also sees important arenas...developed by world historians. He argues that...
An eyewitness to racial history of 20th century: Historian John Hope Franklin, 91, will lecture at the Pratt Library.
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 6/15/2006; 700+ words ; ...African-American historian speaks not as someone...look at itself and see what it's like...autobiography, Mirror to America (Farrar, Straus...is almost equally divided black and white...has been sharply divided along racial lines...discovered the town was divided between Methodists...
Museum wants votes for its Jewish-American hall of fame
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 7/12/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...concrete are all there is to see at the National Museum...the history of Jews in America since 1654, when they...called the "Only in America" gallery, the permanent...prepared by the museum's historians. Divided into nine categories...
Historians look at Kennedy's Wars.(three books)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...A Noble Cause? America and the Vietnam...one neatly sub-divided chapters. It begins...Although many current historians downplay its importance...the Vietnam War see Kennedy's time...domestic front in America. He is more reticent...better place because America lost. America ...