History of Historical Writing in America

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THE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN AMERICA by J. Franklin Jameson, PhD, Professor of History at Brown University. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.

Note: This book is “read as written.” It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain.

Jameson helped found the American Historical Association (1884), and was the first managing editor of the American Historical Review. He also wrote The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement (1926) and invited W. E. B. Du Bois to present a paper concerning Reconstruction at the 1909 AHA meeting. With Waldo Leland, he started lobbying Congress to create the National Archives, the building for which was first funded in 1926. (from Wikipedia)

CONTENTS I. THE HISTORIANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYII. THE HISTORIANS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYIII. FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WARIV. SINCE THE CIVIL WARDusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time, available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration. Please excuse the dust.

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