HIST-1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frederick Jackson Turner, Louis Hartz, John Locke
4 Feb 2020
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Macro-issues industrialization, urbanization, immigration, wealth and poverty, international affairs. The purpose of this is to examine and understand the causes of these macro-issues and to understand how historians interpret these phenomena and why. During 19th century, history was primarily practiced by amateurs often white men of wealth. Two such men were george bancroft and james ford wells. Men such as these wrote history as a series of grand, sweeping narratives pointing towards a steady march of progress; focused on. Us manifest destiny (inevitability, divine providence and ordinance) and emphasized the indispensable presence and contributions of great men (singularly). Essentially focused on the triumph of democratic institutions and ideas. Beginning in the late 19th century when historians became professionalized (first graduate school. John hopkins 1889) the progressive historians; frederick jackson turner and charles a. George washington williams amateur historian who published the history of the negro race in america in 1882; proceeded by men like w. e. b.
