The plain and noble garb of truth : nationalism & impartiality in American historical writing, 1784-1860

The plain and noble garb of truth : nationalism & impartiality in American historical writing, 1784-1860

Athens ; London : University of Georgia Press, 2008.

viii, 368 p. ; 24 cm.

973 C518 2008

(OCoLC)181602038

"American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that, by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America's first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-357) and index.
Contents: "To become a historian": a discipline and a society in transition -- "Histories in novels", "novels in histories": imagination, fact, and the moral truths of history -- "To express old things in a new way": originality and impartiality in American historical methodology -- Puritanism, slavery, and the American revolution : American exceptionalism and impartiality -- The "losers" of the revolution: loyalists, Indians and the ideal of impartiality.
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