History's Babel : Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940 - Robert B. Townsend

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History's Babel

Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940

By: Robert B. Townsend

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Paperback | 4 January 2013 | Edition Number 1

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From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others. In Historyâs Babel, Robert B. Townsend takes us from the beginning of this professional shiftâ"when the work of history included not just original research, but also teaching and the gathering of historical materialsâ"to a state of microprofessionalization that continues to define the field today. Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, Townsend traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history. By revealing how the founders of the contemporary historical enterprise envisioned the future of the discipline, he offers insight into our own historical moment and the way the discipline has adapted and changed over time. Townsendâs work will be of interest not only to historians but to all who care about how the professions of history emerged, how they might go forward, and the public role they still can play.

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"In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"

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Non-Fiction History History Theory & Methods Historiography Education Higher & Further Education Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Building the Historical Enterprise, 1880 to 1910
Establishing a Framework for "Scientific" History Scholarship	p. 13
Developing the Tools and Materials of History Research	p. 37
Defining a Profession of History Teaching	p. 55
Cracks Appear in the Edifice of History, 1911 to 1925
Seeking Refuge in Professionalized Scholarship	p. 77
Placing the Tools and Materials of Research in "Other Hands"	p. 101
History Teaching Finds Its Own Voice	p. 113
Scattering the Historical Enterprise, 1926 to 1940
The Crisis of the "Research Men"	p. 133
Handing Tools and Materials Over to Others	p. 155
Teaching Goes Its Own Way, 1925-1940	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 181
Appendix	p. 189
Notes	p. 193
Index	p. 253
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History's Babel

Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940

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