The Harvard Guide has a long and distinguished history in the annals of reference works. First prepared in 1896 by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Charming, it was a unique scholarly tool. Revised in 1912 by Hart, Charming, and Frederick Jackson Turner, the Guide carried its entries through 1910 and became the standard text.
In 1954 the Harvard Guide to American History appeared, prepared and edited by members of the History Department of Harvard: Oscar Handlin, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., and Paul Herman Buck. A one-volume compendium, the Guide became a classic in historical studies and won a place in every important library—both public and private—of American history.
Now twenty years later, Frank Freidel, Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard, and Richard K. Showman, of the Rhode Island Historical Society, have made the Guide, once more, the most essential reference book for historians. Their work was sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard.
This thoroughly revised, comprehensive guide to American history reflects the explosive growth in historical publications and materials in the past two decades, and the expanding interests of American historians.
About one third of the entries are new. These not only represent the surge of books and articles during the last generation, but also reflect new areas of history. The brief topical sections in the last edition have grown into a three-hundred-page coverage of economic, social, and intellectual history. Demography, social structure, ethnicity, and the new urban and cultural dimensions of history find a place. Colonial history receives both topical and chronological treatment in an all-inclusive section. United States history since 1759, primarily political and diplomatic, appears in the familiar chronological form.
Enlarged and up-to-date sections cover research methods and material. There are practical suggestions on research, writing, and publication, and extensive citation of finding aids and bibliographies to introduce the user to collections of printed materials, public documents, microform, manuscripts, and archives. The section on care and editing of manuscripts, long standard on the subject, appears unchanged; other sections, such as those on automated data retrieval, quantitative techniques, and oral history, reflect innovations in the historian's craft.
The new Guide has been recast in columnar form to make it easier to locate references and includes crossreference by pages and sections to facilitate faster use.

Ecology and Evolution of Communities

Freidel, Frank, 1916-1993; Showman, Richard K., author; Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011. Harvard guide to American history

Frank Freidel; Richard K Showman; Oscar Handlin

Frank Freidel; Oscar Handlin; Richard K Showman

Edward Channing; Frank Burt Freidel

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Harvard guide to American history, vol. 1, Rev. ed., 2nd printing, Cambridge Mass. London, 1975

United States, United States of America

Revised edition, Cambridge, Mass, 1974

Revised edition, January 1980

Revised Edition, PT, 1980

Volume 1, 1974

1990

Obscured texts front cover

Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

2 volumes (xxx, 1290 pages) 25 cm
Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others
Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others
Includes bibliographical references
V.1. Research methods and materials -- Research, writing, and publication -- Care and editing of manuscripts -- Materials of history -- Aids to historical research -- Printed public documents -- Unpublished primary sources -- Microform materials -- Printed historical works -- Biographies and personal records -- Travels and descriptions -- Biographies and writings -- Comprehensive and area histories -- Introduction to American history -- Regional, state, and local histories -- Westward expansion and the frontier -- Histories of special subjects -- Physical environment -- Government -- Law -- Politics -- Economic history -- Demography and social structure -- Immigration and ethnicity -- Social ills and reform -- Social manners and customs -- Education -- Religion -- Intellectual history -- Literature -- Communication -- The arts -- Pure and applied sciences
V.2. America to 1789 -- Colonial period to 1789 -- Age of discovery -- Non-English settlements in America -- Rise of Anglo-America -- Development of the colonies, 1688-1763 -- British empire and colonial policy, 1660-1763 -- Revolutionary era, 1763-1789 -- Histories of special subjects, 1607-1789 -- United States, 1789-1860 -- United States, 1789-1860 -- Federalist era, 1789-1801 -- Republican supremacy, 1801-1817 -- New nationalism, 1817-1829 -- Jacksonian democracy, 1829-1841 -- Manifest destiny -- Old south, slavery, and abolitionism -- Making of the Civil War -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Rise of industry and empire -- The Gilded Age, 1877-1900 -- American empire, 1898-1933 -- Twentieth century -- United States in the twentieth century -- Progressive era -- The twenties -- Depression, Hoover administration, and New Deal -- World War II, 1941-1945 -- Domestic issues since 1945 -- Foreign relations since 1945

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