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Article: RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Edited by ELIZABETH FOXGENOVESE and ELISABETH LASCH-QUINN. Routledge. 373 pp. $21.99 paper.
In 1998, under the presidency of the distinguished Eugene Genovese, the Historical Society was launched as an alternative to academic societies that had largely succumbed to the postmodernist and feminist trendiness that has undermined serious scholarship. Drawing ...