History and historians : selected papers of R.W. Southern / edited by R.J. Bartlett. by Southern, R. W. (Richard William), 1912-2001

Table of Contents: “…Victor and the idea of historical development -- History as prophecy -- The sense of the past -- The shape and substance of academic history -- The historical experience -- The truth about the past -- Review of the letters of Frederic William Maitland -- Sir Maurice Powicke (1879-1963) -- Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889-1976) -- Richard William Hunt (1908-1979) -- Marjorie Reeves as an historian -- Beryl Smalley (1905-1984).…”
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American Intellectual Histories and Historians. by Skotheim, Robert Allen

Table of Contents: “…Early American Chroniclers and Historians, 1600's-1800's --…”
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Historians Against History : the Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing Since 1830. by Noble, David W.

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The historian behind the history : conversations with Southern historians / edited by Megan L. Bever and Scott A. Suarez ; introduction by George C. Rable.

Table of Contents: “…Bever; 3. A Popular Historian: A Conversation with James M. McPherson -- Charity R. …”
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Judgments on history and historians / Jacob Burckhardt ; translated by Harry Zohn ; with a foreword by Alberto R. Coll. by Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897

Table of Contents: “…Jacob Burckhardt, Judgments on History and Historians -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, p. vii -- Foreword, p. xvii -- Translator's Preface, p. xxiii -- I. …”
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Poetry for historians : or, W.H. Auden and history / Carolyn Steedman. by Steedman, Carolyn

Table of Contents: “…Auden and me; Caesura: a worker reads history and ahistorian writes poetry; Part II: Historiography; Makers of History; Homage to Clio; The Ridiculous Historian's Hopes; Conclusion; Permissions; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The Historians' Paradox : the Study of History in Our Time. by Hoffer, Peter Charles

Table of Contents: “…; 3 Historians and the Loaded Question; 4 Cause for Alarm; 5 One of Us Is Lying; 6 The Politics of History and History in Politics; 7 Historians in the Marketplace; 8 Uncertainties; 9 Historians Confront the Problem of Evil; Conclusion; Glossary; A Very Brief Bibliographical Essay; Index; About the Author.…”
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The historian's eye : photography, history, and the American present / Matthew Frye Jacobson. by Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

“…United States History 21st century Pictorial works.…”
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History and the Human Condition : a Historian's Pursuit of Knowledge. by Lukacs, John

Table of Contents: “…Title; Dedication; Contents; Preface; One -- History as Literature; Two -- American Exceptionalism -- Three -- The Germans' Two Wars: Heisenberg and Bohr; Four -- Necessary Evil; Five -- The Origins of the Cold War; Six -- The Vital Center Did Not Hold; Seven -- A Tocqueville Tide; Eight -- The World Around Me: My Adopted Country; Notes; Bibliography; Permissions; Index; Copyright.…”
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Gender and the Historian. by Alberti, Johanna

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; 1. Woman as a force in history; 2. A moment in history 1969-75; 3. Liberating women's history 1976-83; 4. …”
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On the fringes of history : a memoir / Philip D. Curtin. by Curtin, Philip D.

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in central West Virginia -- George School, Swarthmore, and the war years -- After the war and graduate school at Harvard -- Transitions -- First years at Wisconsin -- Comparative tropical history and African studies -- Academic politics in the late 1960s -- To Johns Hopkins.…”
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Postmodernism for Historians. by Brown, Callum G.

Table of Contents: “…How signs relate to 'reality'Theory summary; Application in History; Historians' words; Decoding (1): Cats and Witches; Decoding (2): Carnival; Decoding (3): Food, old age, death; For the student to do; Guide to further reading; Theory; History; Notes; 3. …”
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Essays on French History & Historians : Volume XX. by Mill, John Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION -- Mignet's French Revolution (1826) -- Modern French Historical Works (1826) -- Scott's Life of Napoleon (1828) -- Alison's History of the French Revolution (1833) -- The Monster Trial (1835) -- Carlyle's French Revolution (1837) -- Armand Carrel (1837) -- Michelet's History of France (1844) -- Guizot's Essays and Lectures on History (1845) -- Duveyrier's Political Views of French Affairs (1846) -- Vindication of the French Revolution of February 1848(1849) -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A. …”
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Historians, Economists, and Economic History. by Kadish, Alon

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Part I: Oxford historians; Chapter one: The righteous wrath of James E. …”
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Windows into the past : life histories and the historian of South Asia / Judith M. Brown. by Brown, Judith M. (Judith Margaret), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the practice of history -- Colleges, cohorts, and dynasties -- Family histories -- Individual lives and their public world -- Individual lives and their inner world.…”
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Film and the historian : the British experience / by Philip Gillett. by Gillett, Philip (Philip John)

Subjects: “…History in motion pictures.…”
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Historian in chief : how presidents interpret the past to shape the future / edited by Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis.

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy's neoliberal history of American politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Ronald Reagan's allegories of history / Rick Perlstein -- Barack Obama's use of American history / James T. …”
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Technology and the Historian Transformations in the Digital Age. by Crymble, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Origin Myths of Computing in Historical Research -- 2 The Archival Revisionism of Mass Digitization -- 3 Digitizing the History Classroom -- 4 Building the Invisible College -- 5 The Rise and Fall of the Scholarly Blog -- 6 The Digital Past and the Digital Future -- Appendix: Digital History Syllabus Corpus (2002-2017) -- Glossary: A New Vocabulary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.…”
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Historians and nationalism : East-Central Europe in the nineteenth century / Monika Baár. by Baár, Monika

Subjects: “…Historiography Europe, Eastern History 19th century.…”
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Hollywood as historian : American film in a cultural context / edited by Peter C. Rollins.

Table of Contents: “…Cultural history written with lightning: the significance of The birth of a nation (1915) / Everett Carter -- Problems in film history: how Fox innovated sound / Douglas Gomery -- Ideology and film rhetoric: three documentaries of the new deal era (1936-1941) / Peter C. …”