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Benson J. Lossing and Historical Writing in the United States
1830-1890
Hatold E. Mahan
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Benson J. Lossing and Historical Writing in the United States

1830-1890

Hatold E. Mahan Hatold E. Mahan

March 1996

Praeger

Series: Studies in Historiography

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Analyzes the life and career of the popular nineteenth-century American historian, Benson J. Lossing.

Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891), whose career as a populizer of United States history spanned nearly sixty years, is the focus of this study of the production and uses of history in nineteenth-century American culture. After an introduction on relevant theory and methodology and the background for American historical writing, nine chronological chapters trace Lossing's career from an impoverished youth in rural New York through a thirty-year sojourn in New York City and later periods of voluminous writing. A conclusion discusses how Lossing's reputation suffered after the rise of academic historians who perceived him as lacking scholarly exactitude.
Scribblers and Scholars: An Introduction
A Spark Flamed: 1813-1838
Historian on the Make: 1838-1841
A Career Revived: 1841-1848
From Dan to Beersheba: The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution
Worth a Dozen Plutarchs: The 1850s
Patriotic Lore: Lossing's Civil War
With Redoubled Efforts: 1868-1880
Decline and Fall: 1881-1891
More (or Less) Than a Historian? Lossing's Legacies
Bibliographic Essay
Index




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