That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession Minister Dante Fortson Director of the Center for

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That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession Minister Dante Fortson Director of the Center forThe aspiration to relate the past as it really happened has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a