The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism & Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860

Author/Contributor(s):	Cheng, Eileen Ka-May
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	04/25/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

American historians of the early national period, argues Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than often acknowledged. Cheng challenges the entrenched notion that America's first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation.