VON RANKE, after turning ninety, keeps cheerfully on with his Universal History ; a score or more of learned men associate themselves in writing the history of a single American town. Which is the ...
One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...
A masterful statement on the historical method by a distinguished Cold War historian. Gaddis makes the case that the past may not be prologue, but it can be explored for lessons to guide human action.