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A professional critique of the tendency in academic scholarship to prove worth, which becomes relevance and which in turn is interpreted as a search not for truth but political correctness. Handlin explores the social history of historians and how and why a discipline surrenders the search for truth in favour of assertions of ideological purity.
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Immensely rewarding. This is the distillate of a well-furnished and original mind. Running through this book is Handlin's strong sense of the morality of the historian. Above all, he reiterates the importance of respect for fact. By any standard Oscar Handlin ranks among the most influential historians of the American past..."Truth in History,.".provide[s] the most complete statement of Handlin's approach that we can hope to get. In these essays, written over many years but here reworked into a remarkably unified whole, Handlin examines the limits and possibilities of historical thought. "Immensely rewarding. This is the distillate of a well-furnished and original mind. Running through this book is Handlin's strong sense of the morality of the historian. Above all, he reiterates the importance of respect for fact." --"Christian Science Monitor""By any standard Oscar Handlin ranks among the most influential historians of the American past..."Truth in History..".provide[s] the most complete statement of Handlin's approach that we can hope to get. In these essays, written over many years but here reworked into a remarkably unified whole, Handlin examines the limits and possibilities of historical thought." --"New Republic"
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A professional critique of the tendency in academic scholarship to prove worth, which becomes relevance and which in turn is interpreted as a search not for truth but political correctness. Handlin explores the social history of historians and how and why a discipline surrenders the search for truth in favour of assertions of ideological purity.
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