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Publication Date: 1991
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Challenging Traditional Views, Some Historians Say Their Scholarship May Not Be Truly Objective.
Winkler, Karen J.
Chronicle of Higher Education, v37 n18 pA4-6 Jan 16 1991
A recent book ("That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession") suggests that historians should not claim far-ranging objectivity, challenging the widely held belief that different accounts of the past can be integrated into a coherent picture and that history is less subjective than other disciplines. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Epistemology, Higher Education, Historians, Historiography, Objectivity, Scholarship
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Language: English
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