Historians Against History : The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing Since 1830

Historians Against History was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel J. Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anti-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature. s/t: The Frontier Thesis & the National Covenant in American Historical Writing Since 1830 Preface Flight from feudalism: the new world & the Puritan covenant George Bancrofet: Nature & the fulfillment of the covenant Frederick Jackson Turner: The machine & the loss of the covenant Charles A. Beard: Industrialism & the covenant restored Carl Becker: Europe & the roots of the covenant Vernon Louis Parrington: The covenant & the Jeffersonian Jeremaid Beard: The covenant threatened by institutional power Becker: The covenant replaced by civilization Daniel Boorstin: Blackstone & the conservation of the American covenant The end of the covenant & the beginning of American history Notes Index