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Onuf, Peter S. – OAH Newsletter, 1988
Assessing the role of historians during the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, the author states that no "startling interpretive revisions" are likely to emerge and that historians' major function has been to defend the past against abusers, specifically strict-constructionist who adhere to the doctrine of "original…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Historians, Historiography, United States History
Peer reviewedBraeman, John – International Journal of Social Education, 1987
Examines Charles A. Beard's contribution to how scholars interpret the framing of the Constitution and other events of U.S. history. Describes his work in some detail and includes a transcript of a 1926 conference at which Beard spoke in 1926. (RKM)
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Historians, History Textbooks, Secondary Education
