The Future of Political History
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Policy History
- Vol. 9 (2) , 240-255
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600005947
Abstract
It has become an article of faith that political history has fallen on hard times in recent years. “[T]he status of the political historian within the profession,” William E. Leuchtenburg observed in his 1986 presidential address to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) has “sunk to somewhere between that of a faith healer and a chiropractor.” Hugh Davis Graham, in an insightful analysis of policy history, reached a similar conclusion. “The ranks of traditional political history are depleted,” he wrote in 1993, “their assumptions and methods discredited along with the Great White Men whose careers they chronicled.”Keywords
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