Browsing by Author "Modestino, Kevin M."
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"No More Shall Be a Dull Book": The Aesthetics of History in Antebellum America
Modestino, Kevin M. (2014)In the first half of the nineteenth century, historians in the United States described their work as an aesthetic practice. The romantic nationalist George Bancroft claimed that historical writing ought to provide readers ...