ABSTRACT
This volume of writings by outstanding twentieth-cnetury American historians presents one aspect of the problem which results from the conflict between the subjectivity of the historian and the objectivity of the past. It examines in particular the relationship between the historian and the climate of opinion in which he does he work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|49 pages
Historians of the Earlier 1900s
part 2|46 pages
Historians Since World War II
chapter 8|10 pages
Commentary on “Consensus and Continuity” in Post War Historical Interpretations
J. Rogers Hollingsworth (1962)
part 3|61 pages
A Dissenting Neo-Progressivism in the 1960s: The New Left Historians
part 4|49 pages
The Historian and the Climate of Opinion: An Obstacle or an Opportunity?
