Modern Historians Confront the American Revolution
The historian must be more than a chronicler, a mere lister of events. For his real task is discovering and setting forth the causal connections between events in human history, the complex chain of human purposes, choices, and consequences over ... [... more]
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
 Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms the most extraordinary and [... more]
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Sandra Benjamin
Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale. Emigration of people from ... [... more]
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Byron Hollinshead
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America I Wish I'd Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians' responses to the question "What scene or incident in American history would you most liked ... [... more]
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5 Wild and Weird Thanksgiving Turkeys
While historians haggle over what, exactly, the Pilgrims ate at the first Thanksgiving, we're pretty sure they'd all agree it wasn't alligator. Still, that shouldn't stop you. Hebert's bayou-style birds are carefully deboned by hand so that "all ... [... more]
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Epistemological Relativism in the Sciences of Human Action
Up to the 18th century, historians paid little or no attention to the epistemological problems of their craft. In dealing with the subject of their studies, they again and again referred to some regularities that - as they themselves and their ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections
This volume gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's [... more]
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The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir
William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at [... more]
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Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir
Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. He now candidly recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography with a sharp critique of the historical craft. [... more]
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Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America' s most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged [... more]
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Lynne Rossetto Kasper
For more than twenty years, James Beard Award winner LYNNE ROSSETTO KASPER has been recognized as one of America's leading food authorities, commentators, and cultural historians. The national radio show she co-created and hosts, The Splendid ... [... more]
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John Burrow
Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century This unprecedented book by one of Britain's most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has ... [... more]
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