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

by EileenKa-MayCheng (Author)

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  2011

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  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.