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Annual Report Of The American Historical Association For The Year 1918

Annual Report Of The American Historical Association For The Year 1918

Grace Gardner Griffin

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2020
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Historia
ISBN:
9789354305733
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A working portrait of American historical practice at a decisive moment. Primary sources speak in full. The Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1918 offers the Association’s formal record from a year defined by global conflict and institutional change. As a historical society annual report it provides the kinds of official proceedings, committee reports and administrative records that researchers rely on, forming a primary source collection essential to anyone exploring early 20th century history or the World War I era. Read as an American history reference, this volume reveals the concerns and conversations that shaped the profession: scholarly priorities, governance debates and the practical challenges of sustaining learned societies during wartime. For historians and researchers, the report is a practical historical research resource, supplying direct access to United States historical records and 1918 historical documents; for casual readers it offers immediacy and texture - a direct glimpse of professional life in 1918. Librarians and collectors building an academic history anthology or university library collection will recognise the report’s documentary depth and enduring research value.Its historical significance is immediate: as an institutional voice captured in 1918, the report helps map the professional contours of American scholarship during the World War I era, showing how learned societies recorded priorities and maintained networks under pressure. Beyond immediate scholarship, the volume supplies context for how academic practice and governance adapted to crisis - a perspective that strengthens academic history anthologies and informs teaching, curation and archival work. It suits university library collections and appeals across audiences: historians and researchers will appreciate the primary documentation; casual readers will find vivid traces of intellectual life; collectors, including classic-literature collectors, will value the volume as a period reference. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.

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