The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In th
Haskell explores topics ranging from the productivity of slave labor to the cultural concomitants of capitalism, from John Stuart Mill's youthful "mental crisis
The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assu
Events which become historical, says Michael Kraus, do not live on because of their mere occurrence. They survive when writers re-create them and thus preserve