Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities

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>> 155 Notes Notes to the Introduction 1. Leopold von Ranke, Histories of the Latin and Germanic Nations (1824) quoted in Richard J. Evans, In Defense of History (New York: Norton, 2000), 14. 2. “The Study of History in Schools: A Report to the American Historical Association by the Committee of Seven” [1898], reproduced at www.historians.org/ pubs/archives/CommitteeofSeven/ReportValue.cfm. I use the term “the West” to denote western Europe and the United States. Peter N. Stearns, “Why Study History ” (1998) http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm. 3. Philip D. Curtin, The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), x; J. H. Plumb, The Death of the Past [1969] (2nd ed. London: Palgrave, 2004), 19; Evans, In Defense Of History, 25. 4. Martin Duberman, The Uncompleted Past (New York: Dutton, 1971), 356; John Tosh, The Pursuit of History 5th ed. (Harlow: Longman, 2010), 7; Daniel J. Boorstin, Cleopatra’s Nose: Essays on the Unexpected (New York: Random House, 1994), x; Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (New York: Modern Library, 2010), 170; Anthony Grafton, “History Under Attack” Perspectives on History 49 (January 2011), 5; James Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me rev. ed. (New York: Touchstone, 2007), 9; Keith Jenkins, ReThinking History (London: Routledge, 2003), 34, 67. 5. Henry Ford quoted in David Kyvig and Myron A. Marty, Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You (2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), 1; George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple [1903] in John A. Bertolini, ed., Man and Superman and Three Other Plays (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2004), 283; “one damn thing after another” in G. R. Elton, The Practice of History (London: Methuen, 1967), 40; Francis Fukuyama, The Death of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992), 136. And now for something entirely different—the academic historian as staff writer for literary magazines. The parade is led by Sean 156 > 157 Notes to Chapter 1 1. Michael Winship, a historian’s historian of Tudor–Stuart English and New England puritanism. 2. Baruch Halpern, The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 20; Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 126–27. 3. Michael J. White, “Stoic Natural Philosophy” in Cambridge Companion to the Stoics , ed. Brad Imwood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 137; Axel Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004), 28, 29, 305. 4. Modern exponents of the importance of myth as a spiritual foundation of everyday life include such diverse figures as Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, and Carl Jung. See, e.g., “New Myth” Oxford Companion to World Mythology, ed. David Adams Leeming (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 283–85. 5. Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, ed. and trans. Lewis Thorpe (New York: Penguin, 1974), 67. This “large and vital text” was one of the first of the successor kingdoms to the Roman Empire. It is a true history by a historian, not merely a “storehouse of facts.” Martin Heinzelman, “Introduction,” Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1, 2. 6. Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, trans. Bertram Colgrave, ed. Judith McClure and Roger Collins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 16. 7. Jean Froissart, Chronicles, trans. and ed. Geoffrey Brereton (New York: Penguin, 1978), 234, 233. 8. A. F. S. Pearson, Thomas Cartwright and Elizabethan Puritanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925), 73; Edward Johnson, Johnson’s Wonder-Working Providence [1654], ed. J. Franklin Jameson (New York: Scribner’s, 1910), 40, 42, 43. 9. John L. O’Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity,” The United States Democratic Review 6 No. 23 (1839), 430; Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865, in Ida M. Tarbell, Selections from the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Ginn, 1911), 118. 10. Steven J. Keillor, God’s Judgments: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic Press, 2007), 19. 11. Moses Maimonides, The Book of Knowledge: From the Mishneh Torah of Moses Maimonides, trans. Helen M. Russell and J. Weinberg (Jersey City, N.J.: KTAV, 1985), 121. 12. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species [1859] (6th corrected edition New York: Appleton, 1900), 2:267. 13. David Quammen, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles...