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The Search for a Usable Past: and Other Essays in Historiography by Henry Steele Commager

aimiller's review

3.0

A decent piece of historiography, although many of the essays read more as histories than examinations of history as a field and pieces of historiography. My favorite essays included "The Search for a Usable Past", "How the Lost Cause was Lost", "Should the Historian Sit in Judgment?", and "Should the Historian Write Contemporary History?"