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The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ...ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this book, Hall recaptures and reconstructs a rich but largely overlooked tradition of historical writing by African Americans.Hall charts the origins, meanings, methods, evolution, and maturation of African American historical writing from the period of the Early Republic to the twentieth-century professionalization of the larger field of historical study. He demonstrates how these works borrowed from and engaged with ideological and intellectual constructs from mainstream intellectual movements including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Hall also explores the creation of discursive spaces that simultaneously reinforced and offered counternarratives to more mainstream historical discourse. He sheds fresh light on the influence of the African diaspora on the development of historical study. In so doing, he provides a holistic portrait of African American history informed by developments within and outside the African American community.
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The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, ...Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation (some would argue creation) of our state’s past. An anthology of biographical essays, Writing the Story of Texas pays tribute to the scholars who shaped our understanding of Texas’s past and, ultimately, the Texan identity. Edited by esteemed historians Patrick Cox and Kenneth Hendrickson, this collection includes insightful, cross-generational examinations of pivotal individuals who interpreted our history. On these pages, the contributors chart the progression from Eugene C. Barker’s groundbreaking research to his public confrontations with Texas political leaders and his fellow historians. They look at Walter Prescott Webb’s fundamental, innovative vision as a promoter of the past and Ruthe Winegarten’s efforts to shine the spotlight on minorities and women who made history across the state. Other essayists explore Llerena Friend delving into an ambitious study of Sam Houston, Charles Ramsdell courageously addressing delicate issues such as racism and launching his controversial examination of Reconstruction in Texas, Robert Cotner—an Ohio-born product of the Ivy League—bringing a fresh perspective to the field, and Robert Maxwell engaged in early work in environmental history.
Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to ...write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography,Democracy in Americais best understood as a French book, written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly concerned with France. "America," Jaume says, "was merely a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of France." For Tocqueville, in short, America was a mirror for France, a way for Tocqueville to write indirectly about his own society, to engage French thinkers and debates, and to come to terms with France's aristocratic legacy.
By taking seriously the idea that Tocqueville's French context is essential for understandingDemocracy in America, Jaume provides a powerful and surprising new interpretation of Tocqueville's book as well as a fresh intellectual and psychological portrait of the author. Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in postrevolutionary France, Jaume shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted--and who believed that it would be necessary to preserve aristocratic values in order to protect liberty under democracy. Indeed, Jaume argues that one of Tocqueville's most important and original ideas was to recognize that democracy posed the threat of a new and hidden form of despotism.
With this essay, we follow the footsteps of a late-medieval individual and the manuscripts he produced. This study shows how fruitful a thorough examination of the materiality of historical sources ...used by historians can be, which in turn can illuminate both the social careers of local administrative officials and their intimate connection and complicity with the royal administration. This work also encompasses the reform of the municipal charters, one of the main legislative initiatives of the administrative machine in the early Modern Age in Portugal, confirming that its planning and implementation began earlier than previously thought by historians. Finally, by closely pursuing through the centuries the transmission of the main manuscript sources used in this essay, one has a glimpse of the bureaucratic procedures and archival organization during this period in Portugal. Keywords: Alvaro Fragoso, local and royal administration, reform of municipal charters under D. Joao II and D. Manuel I, manuscript sources, archival organization, bureaucratic procedures, Evora, Entre-Tejo-e-Odiana. Com este trabalho pretende-se biografar e cartografar o percurso de uma personagem tardimedieval e dos seus manuscritos. O estudo evidencia o interesse de uma abordagem da materialidade das fontes historicas que os historiadores utilizam, a qual podera iluminar nao somente o percurso social dos oficiais administrativos locais, mas tambem a sua estreita ligacao e cumplicidade com a administracao regia. Este trabalho aborda ainda alguns aspectos da chamada reforma dos forais, uma dos principais iniciativas legislativas da maquina administrativa nos inicios da epoca moderna em Portugal, confirmando como o seu planeamento e inicio dos trabalhos precede as datas normalmente apontadas pela historiografia. Ao se seguir cuidadosamente a transmissao ao longo dos seculos das principais fontes manuscritas utilizadas neste estudo, entrevemos um pouco dos tramites da burocracia e da organizacao arquivistica durante a Idade Moderna em Portugal. Palavras-chave: Alvaro Fragoso, administracao local e regia, reforma dos forais municipais sob D. Joao II e D. Manuel I, fontes manuscritas, organizacao arquivistica; procedimentos burocraticos, Evora, Entre-Tejo-e-Odiana.
Based on photographic sources of a school parade during Getulio Vargas's New State period, current historiographic essay shows how, within a specific historical place and time, the photographic ...records identify the relationships between civic school parades and the primary school and the period's political ideology and environment. The article is divided into two parts. The first part provides brief considerations on the nature of the photographic image as evidence for historians and defines the manner it will be examined. The second part deals with the analysis and interpretation of photographs of the parade involving students of the Elementary School Dr. Manoel Pedro in the town of Lapa, Parana State, Brazil, in 1941. Keywords: photograph, Parana, history of education. Tomando por fontes fotograficas de um desfile escolar realizado em pleno periodo do Estado Novo, o objetivo deste artigo, de cunho historiografico, e apontar como em determinado lugar e tempo historico, os registros fotograficos permitem identificar a relacao dos desfiles civico-escolares e da propria escola primaria com o ambiente e ideologia politica da epoca. O artigo esta dividido em duas partes. Na primeira, sao tecidas breves consideracoes sobre a natureza da imagem fotografica enquanto evidencia para o trabalho do historiador, demarcando o modo como sera aqui interrogada. Em seguida, procede-se a analise e interpretacao das fotografias do desfile em que participaram alunos do Grupo Escolar Dr. Manoel Pedro, na cidade da Lapa, Estado do Parana, no ano de 1941. Palavras-chave: fotografia, Parana, historia da educacao. Basandose por fuentes fotograficas de un desfile escolar realizado en pleno periodo del Estado Nuevo, el objetivo de este articulo, de caracter historiografico, es senalar como en determinado lugar y tiempo historico, los registros fotograficos permiten identificar la relacion de los desfiles civico-escolares y de la propia escuela primaria con el ambiente e ideologia politica de la epoca. El articulo esta dividido en dos partes. En la primera, son producidas breves consideraciones sobre la naturaleza de la imagen fotografica como evidencia para el trabajo del historiador, demarcando el modo como sera aqui interrogada. Enseguida, se procede al analisis e interpretacion de las fotografias del desfile en que participaron alumnos del Grupo Escolar Dr. Manoel Pedro, en la ciudad de la Lapa, Estado de Parana, en el ano de 1941. Palabras clave: fotografia, Parana, historia de la educacion.
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