Written History as an Act of Faith.¶
Beard, C. A. (1934). Written History as an Act of Faith. American Historical Review, 39(2), 219-231.
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- Presentism
- Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) named and critiqued the pattern by which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British historians wrote history as a progressive narrative ending in present-day Whig liberal institutions, treating past actors and movements as either precursors of or obstacles to the present outcome.
This sourceArgues that all written history involves interpretive selection guided by the historian's present standpoint; early articulation of the inevitability of present-situation that Carr later developed.
- Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) named and critiqued the pattern by which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British historians wrote history as a progressive narrative ending in present-day Whig liberal institutions, treating past actors and movements as either precursors of or obstacles to the present outcome.
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