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Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.

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"In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 04/01/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226923932, 978-0226923932
      ISBN10: 0226923932
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      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.

      Trade Review
      "In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"

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