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

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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.