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No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does. -- Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have. -- Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I. The Historical Profession
1. Formative Years
2. Growth Since 1907
3. Distribution and Recruitment of Talene
4. The Historian and His Audience
Part II. Theory
1. Scientific History: The American Orthodoxy
2. The New History
3. Relativism
4. The Renewal of History
Part III. American History
1. The Conservation Evolutionist as Amateur
2. The Conservation Evolutionist as Professor
3. The Ascendncy of Progressive History
6. A Search for Stability
Part IV. Legacy
1. A Time of Troubles
2. Postscript: Objectivity Reexamined
Index

About the Author

John Higham is professor emeritus of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America and co-editor of Ethnic Leadership in America.