The search for a usable past, and other essays in historiography.

Author: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

Edition Statement:[1st ed.]

Imprint:New York : Knopf, 1967.

Descriptionxii, 363 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:The search for a usable past -- Constitutional history and the higher law -- The economic interpretation of the Constitution reconsidered -- Joseph Story: a portrait -- Jefferson and the book-burners -- The blasphemy of Abner Kneeland -- The dilemma of Theodore Parker -- Theodore Parker, intellectual gourmand -- The significance of The Dial -- The Second War of American Independence -- The Era of Reform -- Democracy in America -- Civil War cartography -- How the lost cause was lost -- The hope of reform, 1890-1917 -- Lester Ward and the welfare state -- Jane Addams at Hull House -- John Fiske: an interpretation -- Should the historian sit in judgment? -- Should the historian write contemporary history? -- Anders Sorensen Vedel: the Hamlet of Lillibjerget -- Struensee and the Enlightenment.

Bibliography Note:Bibliographical footnotes.

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