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ix Foreword Interpreting American History Series of all the history courses taught on college campuses, historiography is one of the most challenging. the historiographic essays most often available are frequently too specialized for broad teaching and sometimes too rigorous for the average undergraduate student . every day, frustrated scholars and students search for writings that offer both breadth and depth in their approach to the historiography of different eras and movements. As young scholars grow more intellectually mature, they search for literature, sometimes in vain, that will clarify historiographical points. As graduate students prepare for seminar presentations, comprehensive examinations , and dissertation work, they continue to search for works that will help to place their work within the broader study. then, when they complete their studies and enter the professoriat, they find themselves less intellectually connected to the ideas that they once showed a mastery of, and they again ask about the lack of meaningful and succinct studies of historiography . . . and the circle continues. within the pages of this series, innovative young scholars discuss the different interpretations of the important eras and events of history, focusing not only on the intellectual shifts that have taken place but also on the various catalysts that drove these shifts. It is the hope of the series editors that these volumes fill the aforementioned intellectual voids and speak to young scholars in a way that will supplement their other learning, that the same pages that speak to undergraduate students will also remind the established x scholar of his or her historiographic roots, that a difficult subject will be made more accessible to curious minds, and that these ideas are not lost among the details offered within the classroom. Brian D. mcKnight, University of Virginia’s college at wise James s. Humphreys, murray state University foreword ...

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