A Distant Mirror, by Barbara W. Tuchman by David Donald IN 1948 the American Historical Association conducted a poll to identify the six greatest American historians who were no longer…
Roots, by Alex Haley by David Donald When Alex Haley was growing up in Tennessee during the 1920's, his grandmother used to entertain him with stories about…
Roll, Jordan, Roll, by Eugene D. Genovese by David Donald The subject of Negro slavery exerts a peculiar fascination over contemporary American historians.
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, by Fawn M. Brodie by David Donald The time has come, it seems, to erect a new tombstone for Thomas Jefferson.
The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin by David Donald After fifteen years and three quarters of a million words, Daniel J. Boorstin has completed his trilogy, The Americans.
The Idea of Fraternity in America, by Wilson Carey McWilliams by David Donald This enormous volume, "pretentious" and "intolerably long" by its author's admission, is really two distinct books bound together.
The History Primer, by J. H. Hexter; Doing History, by J. H. Hexter by David Donald For nearly a generation professional historians in the United States have been experiencing a crisis of confidence.
America at 1750, by Richard Hofstadter by David Donald In May 1969 Richard Hofstadter sent his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, the prospectus for a three-volume comprehensive history of the…
The South and the Nation, by Pat Watters by David Donald Though Southern historical scholarship has gained in depth and precision during the past generation, no recent interpretation of the region…
The American Negro: His History and Literature, edited by William Loren Katz by David Donald In 1887 the Reverend William J. Simmons, president of the State University at Louisville, Kentucky, published a book which raises…
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, by Staughton Lynd by David Donald MUCH OF THE history written in the United States today makes deadly reading. Aside from a handful of gifted amateurs,…
The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, by George Brown Tindall by David Donald THE SOUTH, announced H. L. Mencken in the 1920's, is the "bonghole of the United States, a cesspool of baptists,…
