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HISTORY — HISTORIANS (The Practice of History)

"Style in History", Gay, The American Scholar, Vol.43 No.2 Spring 1974.

"History: A Discipline in Crisis?", Handlin, The American Scholar, Vol.40, No.3, Summer 1971.

"Is History Irrelevent?", Pessen, Dissent, June 1971.

"L’historien témoin de son temps", Schlesinger, Jr., Dialogue, Vol.6, No.4, 1975.

"The Regressive Historians", Lynn, The American Scholar, Vol.47, No.4, Autumn 1978.

"Narrative, Myth and the Turner Thesis" (historian Frederick Jackson Turner), Munslow, Journal of American Culture, Vol.9, No.2, Summer 1986.

"Public History as a Popular Movement: How Public? How Popular?", Ryant, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.20, Summer 1986.

"Learning Without Knowing" (on the use of history), Shkar, Daedalus, Vol.117, No.3, Summer 1988.

"The New History and its Critics: A Look at Gertrude Himmelfarb’s Complaint" (historian of Victorian Britain), Wilenz, Dissent, Spring 1989.

"The Demise of Historical Man", Kolakowski; "The Uses of Anxiety" (in History), Loewenberg; Partisan Review, No.3, 1991.

"The Vantity of Historicism", Rae, New Literary History Vol.22, No.4 Autumn 1991.

"Temporality and the Necessity for Dialectic: The Missing Dimension of Contemporary Theory", Altieri, New Literary History, Vol.23, No.1, Winter 1992.

"An Historian Who Writes History" (on Max Beloff), Barzun, The American Scholar, Vol.62, No.1, Winter 1993.

	"The Future of American History", Higham;
	"History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch", Blake and Phelps; Journal of American History, Vol.80, No.4, March 1994.

	"‘The Apotheosis of Glory’: Surveying Social History" (on the Encyclopedia of American Social History), Lipsitz;
	"Healing at the Razor’s Edge: Reflections on a History of Multicultural America" (discusses historian Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror), Harding; Journal of American History, Vol.81, No.2, September 1994.

"Civil War Reenactors and the Postmodern Sense of History", Hall, Journal of American Culture, Vol.17, No.3, Fall 1994.

SPECIAL ISSUE: The Practice of American History

	"The Practice of American History", Thelen;
	"The Practice and Purpose of History", Glassie;
	"Committing History in Public", Linenthal;
	"‘Venturesome and Cautious’: American History in the 1990s", Bender;
	"Back to Basics: Who is Researching and Interpreting for Whom?", Tchen;
	"Historians and their Publics", Brinkley;
	"Racial Attraction: Tracing the Historiographical Alliances between South Africa and the United States Cuthbertson;
	"The Fragmentation of the Profession and Its Class Culture", Baker;
	"Banality and Enigma", Hollinger;
	"American History at Home and Abroad", Vaudagna;
	"History Against Itself", Cmiel; Journal of American History, Vol.81, N03, December 1994.

"History and Difference" (on women historians), Scott, Daedalus, Vol.116, No.4, Fall 1987.

"The Chairman’s Secret Speech", Zagajewski (discusses his view of the past in an excerpt from Two Cities: On Exile, History and the Imagination), Partisan Review, No.1, Winter 1995.

"Two Views of Social History: E.P. Thompson and Gertrude Himmelfarb", Semmel, Partisan Review, Vol.52, No.2, 1985.

"Italian Historians Interpret American History", Vecoli Journal of American History, Vol.82, No.2, Sept.1995.