On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions - Hardcover

Bailyn, Bernard; Lathem, Edward Connery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874517125 ISBN 13: 9780874517125

Publisher: Univ Pr of New England, 1994

Synopsis

Accurate historical knowledge is essential for social sanity.

About this title

From the Publisher:

5 1/4 x 8 trim. Frontis. LC 95-62168

From Library Journal:

This slender volume is based on two tape-recorded interviews with the renowned Harvard historian conducted in 1991 while he was a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. This "conversation" provides a fascinating if somewhat rambling account of Bailyn's views of the nature of historical writing and teaching. Although specialists will find little that is new here, two points stand out: his concern that testing students in history courses overemphasizes historiography at the expense of "History," and his fierce belief that written history, in spite of its lack of pure objectivity, is not just another fiction, as some postmodernists would have us believe. An interesting series of ruminations that should be required reading for all beginning history majors and teachers.?Anthony O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0874517125
• ISBN 13: 9780874517125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 97
• Editor: Lathem Edward Connery