The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of HistoryStephen Vaughn University of Georgia Press, 1985 - 406 Seiten The importance of history and its relevance to the present have seldom gone unquestioned in modern times. This is particularly true in the United States, born as the quintessentially modern nation, where the image of a vast open frontier and the unofficial state creed of limitless progress have diminished the importance of the past, and where the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed that nature and personal experience made tradition irrelevant for the self-reliant American. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Everyman His Own Historian BY CARL L BECKER | 20 |
Putting the Past Before US BY G R ELTON | 41 |
On Knowing the Past BY MICHAEL KAMMEN | 55 |
History BY HAROLD J HANHAM | 65 |
The Uses and Abuses of History BY W B GALLIE | 78 |
The Experience of Writing History BY GEORGE F KENNAN | 89 |
The Uses of History BY LESTER D STEPHENS | 98 |
A Proud Word for History BY ALLAN NEVINS | 236 |
History BY CARL G GUSTAVSON | 249 |
What Is History? BY DAVID S LANDES AND CHARLES TILLY | 259 |
History as Force BY DONALD M DOZER | 266 |
History and Contemporary Analysis | 277 |
Is History a Guide to the Future? BY BARBARA W TUCHMAN | 296 |
Historical Analogies and the Meaning | 302 |
The Inscrutability of History BY ARTHUR M SCHLESINGER JR | 311 |
The Necessity of History and the Professional Historian | 104 |
The Nature of History BY HENRY STEELE COMMAGER | 120 |
The Usefulness of History BY HENRIIRENEE MARROU | 130 |
What Is Radical History? BY HOWARD ZINN | 158 |
The Significance of History BY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER | 177 |
Clio a Muse BY GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN | 189 |
The Functions of Teaching History BY DAVID PRATT | 199 |
The Dangers of History BY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD | 215 |
Lessons Analogies and Prediction BY LESTER D STEPHENS | 323 |
The Founding Fathers and Clio BY COLIN B GOODYKOONTZ | 335 |
The Historian and Public Policy BY JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN | 347 |
A Reflection on Historians and Policymakers | 360 |
Roles in Policymaking | 369 |
CONCLUSION | 383 |
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