Perspectives on History 07/14/2025 In a new age of nations, how we tell national stories will become more important than ever.
Historiography
A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation
The Hedgehog Review 6/24/2022 It was the evening before the Fourth of July in the last year of his tumultuous presidency, and I sat in front of my television transfixed and horrified as Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore, ostensibly a celebration of...
From Polity To Exchange: The Fate Of Democracy In The Changing Fields Of Early American Histiography
Cambridge University Press 11/20/2018 Gordon Wood stoked a strong response from his fellow early American historians in 2015 when, in the pages of the Weekly Standard, he accused the Omohundro Institute of Early American History, publishers of the prestigious William...
American History In A Global Age
History and Theory 2/11/2011 Historians around the world have sought to move beyond national history. In doing so, they often conflate ethical and methodological arguments against national history. This essay, first, draws a clear line between the ethical and the...