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The search for a usable past, and other essays in historiography

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

Year: c1967.

Publisher: Knopf.

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Frontmatter

INTRODUCTION

A Search for A Usable Past

Constitutional History and the Higher Law

The Economic Interpretation of the Constitution Reconsidered

Joseph Story: A Portrait

Jefferson and the Book-Burners

The Blasphemy of Abner Kneeland

The Dilemma of Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker, Intellectual Gourmand

The Significance of The Dial

The Second War of American Independence

The Era of Reform

"Democracy in America"

Civil War Cartography

How the Lost Cause Was Lost

The Hope of Reform, 1890-1917

Lester Ward and the Welfare State

Jane Addams at Hull House

John Fiske: An Interpretation

Should the Historian Sit in Judgment?

Should the Historian Write Contemporary History?

Anders Sørensen Vedel: The Hamlet of Lilliebjerget

Struensee and the Enlightenment

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Title:

The search for a usable past, and other essays in historiography : by Henry Steele Commager.

Author:

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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The search for a usable past, and other essays in historiography : by Henry Steele Commager.
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
New York: Knopf, c1967.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07389

Subject Headings:

• United States -- History
• United States -- Historiography

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