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American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians ...
Also genealogical sketches of the Pool, Very, Tarr and other families, with a history of premaquid, ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in maine; and some details of indian warfare.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.