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			Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society Edited by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn [The Historical Society is an affiliate with barnesandnoble.com. Your purchase of "Reconstructing History" through the link to the left helps support The Historical Society.] In an insightful and challenging collection of essays, members of the Historical Society outline some of the themes and concerns that the society seeks to explore. This broad range of scholars, representing varied branches of the discipline, investigate some of the most exciting questions engaging historians today. buy this book! ISBN: 0-415-92279-8 pb. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction PART I THE IMPERATIVE: THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AS A CRITIQUE AND A NEW IDEAL 1. New Departure Eugene D. Genovese 2. The Past under Siege: A Historian Ponders the State of His Profession – and What to Do about It? Marc Trachtenberg 3. The Future of History in an Increasing Unified World Alan Charles Kors 4. Politics and Multiculturalism Daniel C. Littlefield 5. Democracy in the Ivory Tower? Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn PART II HISTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL MILIEU 6. History in a Postmodern World Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 7. On the Obsolescence of “Puritanism” as an Epithet Rochelle Gurstein 8. Postmodernist History Gertrude Himmelfarb 9. A New Intellectual History? Russell Jacoby 10. Henry Louis Gates, Sterling Brown, and the Professional Languages of African American Literary Criticism Phillip M. Richards PART III MEDITATIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY 11. Confessions of an Accidental (or Perhaps Overdetermined) Historian Leo P. Ribuffo 12. Living in the Scottish Record Office Deborah A. Symonds 13. Writing the History of Practice: The Humanities and Baseball, with a Nod to Wrestling Bruce Kuklick 14. The Dilemmas of the Contemporary Military Historian Victor Davis Hanson 15. Aristotle and the Study of History: A Manifesto Paul A. Rahe 16. What Is a Liberal Education Donald Kagan 17. The Death of Jane Addams Edward Berkowitz PART IV AN EDUCATIONAL MISSION: STANDARDS FOR THE TEACHING OF HISTORY 18. The Controversy over National History Standards Diane Ravitch 19. The National History Standards John Diggins 20. The National History Standards Sean Wilentz 21. The National History Standards Walter McDougall PART V HISTORIANS AT WORK 22. Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890-1916 Martin J. Sklar 23. Center and Periphery in the History of Science Miriam R. Levin 24. Work in the Moctezuma Brewery John Womack 25. Faulkner’s South: Is There Truth in Fiction? Louis Ferleger and Richard H. Steckel _____________________________________________l. (Back to top of page)