...Othon Guerlac Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 Ernest Lavisse French Historian and Educator Othon Guerlac Cornell University Those who studied in Paris in the last decade of the last century may remember an unsightly brick structure tempora­ rily erected in the inner court...

...Lionel Stevenson Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian . By Clive John . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1973 . Pp. xv , 499 , xxxvi . $15.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 279 political or social rights, or of reordering society in the South...

...Harvey Wish Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 The American Historian and the New Conservatism Harvey Wish Present-day historians follow Herodotus, Thucydides, and Janies Harvey Robinson in feeling no shame about dealing with events almost contemporary with the morning newspaper...

...John C. Cairns Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THE HISTORIAN IN THE WESTERN WORLD John C. Cairns y^T MID-CENTURY Western man continues the unrelenting YjL search for meaning in life, struggling more consciously perhaps than ever before to understand his place in the stream...

...Franklin L. Riley Dr. John W. Monette: The Pioneer Historian of the Mississippi Valley By Franklin L. Riley, Professor of History in University of Mississippi John Wesley Monette was born at Staunton, Va., April 5, 1803. In his infancy his family removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was reared...

...Shelby T. McCloy Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 DUCLOS, HISTORIAN AND PHILOSOPHER SHELBY T. McCLOY ONLY THE SPECIAL student of eighteenth-century literature and thought is familiar with the name of Charles Pinot Duclos; the one hundred and sixty-seven years that have passed...

...L. M. Angus-Butterworth Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 GOLDSMITH AS HISTORIAN L. M. ANGUS-BUTTERWORTH THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD continues to give its author an outstanding place as a novelist; She Stoops to Conquer maintains his place in the front rank of dramatists; The Deserted...

...John Braeman The Historian as Activist: Charles A. Beard and the New Deal John Braeman Charles A. Beard was probably the most influential and widely read American historian of the twentieth century. Lewis Mumford acknowl­ edged him in 1945 as the most powerful single figure in the teaching...

...Harold T. Parker Parkman’s History: The Historian as Literary Artist . By Pease Otis A. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1953 . Pp. xi , 86 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 287 though this reviewer enjoyed reading the biography, he...

...William B. Hamilton Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 CHURCHILL: ACTOR AS HISTORIAN* WILLIAM B. HAMILTON AT RARE intervals the historian is propelled by wanton Fortune into high public office, as with Guizot and Wilson, and if he survives the experience, he may, as in the case...

...William C. Havard Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Burden of the Literary Mind: Some Meditations on Robert Penn Warren As Historian William C. Ilavard I The October 7, 1962, issue of the New York Times Book Review reported the answers of six prominent critics to the question...

...J. A. Harrison Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Time and the American Historian J. A. Harrison I read with great interest Are American Historians Losing Ground? in a copy of American Studies (December, 1962) which was delivered to me by accident. The article itself, reporting...

...Robert F. Durden Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Southern Historian Robert F. Durden The emergence of Southern history from the dank shadows of defensive parochialism has not proceeded uniformly and con­ tinuously throughout this century. Rather, recurring waves...

...Harold T. Parker Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 A TENTATIVE REFLECTION ON THE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH AND THE HISTORIAN* Harold T. Parker STERLING P. Lamprecht has observed that nature, which in­ cludes man, is quite a mess of miscellaneous stuff. To speak of nature...

...Solomon Gemorah Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Frederick J. Teggart Scientific Historian of the "New History Solomon Gemorah In the last decade of the nineteenth century several prominent historians advocated a scientific approach to historical change. Hen­ ry Adams, in 1894...

...Walter Johnson Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Historians Join the March on Montgomery Walter Johnson On Thursday, March 25, 1965, some forty-three historians joined thou­ sands of others on the final day of the march from Selma to Mont­ gomery. The marchers represented...

...Richard Polenberg Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Historians and the Liberal Presidency: Recent Appraisals of Roosevelt and Truman Richard Polenberg I The traditional view of domestic politics in the 1940s derived, in part, from the values historians themselves held. A decade...

...I. B. Holley, Jr. American Intellectual Histories and Historians . By Skotheim Robert Allen . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1966 . Pp. 326 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 384 The South Atlantic Quarterly tew people still do not know...

...Harvey Wish The New Formalism Versus the Progressive Historians Harvey Wish On the eve of World War I, a band of Russian literary scholars and philologists warred upon the leftist writers who immersed themselves in psychology, sociology, or cultural history and tried to make literature...

...W. T. Laprade Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 HISTORIANS OF SEMINAL CENTURIES W. T. LAPRADE THE HISTORY of England in the four centuries from fifteen hundred to nineteen hundred affords an epitome of the history of the Western World in modern times. In the sixteenth century...