Abolitionism, 102
Adams, Henry, and The Education of Henry Adams, 73
Afghan War, 129
Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan, 56
Ambrose, Stephen, 77–78
American Historical Association (AHA), 2, viii
Professional Division of, 151–152
Statement on Standards of, 152
American Political Science Association, 60
American Revolution, 37
Anglo-Saxon peoples, 74
Aristotle, on causation, 38
Atomic bomb, 123
Bacon, Francis, 50
and “civil history,” 50–51
and “idols of the mind,” 51–52
and scientific method, 50
Baconian fallacy, 8
Bancroft, George, 27
Battle fatigue, 124
Beard, Charles, on philosophy, 33
Becker, Carl, on history, 153
Bede, 12–13
Benchley, Robert, vii
Benedict, Ruth, 63–64
Bible, 10
Biography, 88–109
Black, Hugo, on history, 140
“Blundering generation,” 101
Boorstin, Daniel, 80–81
Boyle, Robert, 52
Breen, Timothy, 84
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 141
Buchanan, James, 103
Burns, James MacGregor, 60–61
Bury, J. B., 53
Bush, George W., 127, 130, 133
on history, 6
Caesar, Julius, 1
and war, 116
Carlyle, Thomas, 90
“Carpet bombing,”123
Causation, in history, 38–41
Cheney, Lynne, on history, 4
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, 63–64
Civil rights cases, 141
Civil War (U.S.), 41, 103, 137
Clausewitz, Carl von, 112
and On War, 113
Clinton, Bill, 133
Clive, John, 72
Cochran, Thomas, 55
Cognitive psychology, 71
Columbian Centennial, 96
“Columbian exchange,” 94
Columbus, Christopher, 92–97
Columbus Day, 93
Common-law, 136
Comte, Auguste, 53
Conspiracy theory, 127
Context, in history, 10, 125–126
Cooley, Thomas M., on law, 136
Coulanges, Fustel de, 53
Creationism, 19
“Critical legal studies,” 138
Cronon, William, and Statement on Standards, 175n2
Crosby, Alfred, and “Columbian exchange,” 59–60
Crusades, 120
Cultural anthropology, 62–64
and ethnography, 62
and history, 63–64
and slavery, 63–64
Curti, Merle, 46
and social thought, 46–47
D’Arcy, Martin Cyril, 19–20, 47–48
Darwin, Charles, 15–19
Davis, Jefferson, 100
Dawkins, Richard, 17–18
Decontructionism, 85
Demos, John, 82
and novelistic techniques, 83
and The Unredeemed Captive, 82–83
Descent of Man, 17
Dilthey, Wilhelm, on idealist history, 45–46
Douglas, Stephen A., 100
Economics, 67–69
and history, 67–69
Ely, Richard T., 67
Emancipation Proclamation, 102
Engerman, Stanley, and Time on the Cross, 68
Enlightenment, Age of, 52–53
Environmental determinism, 58
Erikson, Erik, 69
and Young Man Luther, 70
Eurocentrism, 14
Evidence, in history, 49–50, 140
Evolution of species, 15–19
critics of, 16–17
“Experimental history,” 84–85
Expert witnesses, historians as, 141–144
Faith, and history, 9, 19, 22, 23
Fame, 92
Ferguson, Niall, on lessons of history, 132–133
Fischer, David Hackett, and historical fallacies, 34–35, 37–38
Fogel, Robert, and Time on the Cross, 68
Foner, Eric, on history, 151
Foote, Shelby, 79
Franklin, John Hope
as expert witness, 141
on history, 153–154
Freud, Sigmund, 69
and Moses and Monotheism, 69–70
Friends of the court briefs, 143
Froissart, Jean, 13
Fukuyama, Francis, on history, 3–4
Fundamentalism, 18–19
Geertz, Clifford, and “thick description,” 64
Genetics, and history, 98–99
Genovese, Eugene, 23
Geography, and history, 56–60
Gettysburg, battle of, 40
Gingrich, Newt, on history, 5
Ginzburg, Carlo, and The Cheese and the Worms, 83–84
“Golden age” of biography, 109
Gould, Stephen J., 21
and “non-overlapping magisteria,” 21–22
Grafton, Anthony, on history, 3
“Great man” theory of history, 90
Greatness, in biography, 89–108
Gregory of Tours, 12
Greven, Philip, 70
Gutman, Herbert, and Time on the Cross, 68
Hatlo, Jimmy, 135–150
Hegel, Georg, 27–28
Hempel, Karl, 39
and “covering laws,” 39–40
Herodotus, 57
Historiography, vii
History, as a science, 52
History, as noble study, viii
History, as problem, 1–7
History, as required course, 2
History, ecumenical, 14–15
History, lessons of, 34, 111, 116, 131–133, 152–153
Hodge, Charles, on evolution, 18
Hofstadter, Richard
on anti-intellectualism, 47
on social science, 55–56
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., on law, 136–137
Holocaust, in history, 2–3, 119
Homer, 1
“House divided” speech, 104
Hume, David, 25
on causation, 38–39
on history, 25
Huntington, Ellsworth, 58
and environmental determinism, 58
and imperialism, 58
and race, 58
Hussein, Saddam, 126, 127, 129
Hypotheticals, in history, 124, 127–128
Idealist history, 45–46
Ideas, existence of, 42
and history, 41–48
“Imperial overstretch,” 132
Influence, on history, 95–97
Intelligence gathering, domestic, 130
Intelligent design, 19
Iraq, modern, 129
Iraq War, 125–129
Islam, 127
Jackson, Andrew, 115
Japan, in war, 121
Jargon
in historical writing, 73–74
in literary criticism, 73–74
in philosophy, 26
Jay, John, and “ruling race,” 97
Jefferson, Thomas, on history, 6
Jenkins, Keith, on history, 3
Jihad, 120
“Jim Crow,” 148
Johnson, Edward, 13
Johnson, Rossiter, 96–97
Johonnot, James, 95–96
Jung, Carl, 44
and archetypes, 44
Kant, Immanuel, on causation, 39
Kelly, Alfred, as expert witness, 141
Kennedy, John F., 79–80
Kennedy, Paul, on lessons of history, 132
Kingdom of Heaven, 154
Korean War, 125
Kousser, J. Morgan, as expert witness, 141
La Rocque, Gene, on war, 131
Langdell, Christopher Columbus, on law, 136
Language, in history, 34–35, 37
Las Casas, Bartolome de, 114–115
Lasch, Christopher, 23
Lasswell, Harold, 112
Law, and history, 135–150
Law, in the U.S., 135
internalist study of, 139
and “law and society,” 137
“Law of Nations,” 119–120
“Law office history,” 137–140
Law reviews, 140
Leacock, Stephen, 7
Lead paint cases, 141
Leadership, in history, 61
Lee, Robert E., 40
LeMay, Curtis, in World War II, 123
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 43
and structuralism, 43–44
Levy, Leonard, on history, 140
Lieber, Francis, 119
Lincoln, Abraham, 99–100
first inaugural address of, 104–105
Gettysburg Address of, 105–106
as representative man, 102
reputation of, 99–100, 101, 108
second inaugural address of, 106–107
and slavery, 102
words of, 103–108
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 107
“Linguistic turn,” 85
Literary criticism, and history, 85–87
Literature, 72–87
and history, 72–87
Littlefield, Douglas, 142
and context in history, 142
and law firm needs, 142
and publication, 143
and secondary sources, 143
Llewellyn, Karl, on law, 139
Lorenz, Konrad, 113
and On Aggression, 113–114
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 76
and literary style, 76–77
Maimonides, Moses, 15
Maitland, Frederic William, 72–73
“Manifest destiny,” 14
Maps, and history, 57–58
Marshall Plan, 124
Marx, Karl, 28–29
and Communist Manifesto, 28
and modes of production, 29
and philosophy of history, 29
Marxism, 69
Mencken, H. L., 33
Meta-narrative, 14
Mexican-American War, 115, 126
“Microhistory,” 89
Montcalm, Marquis de, 75
Montesquieu, Baron de, 53
Morality, and history, 26–35
Motive, in history, 36
Muses (Clio’s sisters), viii, 7
Myth, 11
Nash, Gary, 5
on National History Standards, 5–6
National History Standards, 4–6
Native Americans and Columbus, 93, 94
and cultural anthropology, 62
origin stories of, 11
and Parkman, 75–76
in Spanish Empire, 114–115
and war, 114
Necessity, in history, 38
“New institutionalism,” in political science, 61
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 30–31
and books, 30–31
and evil, 30–31
and morality, 30–31
and will, 31
Novel, and history, 77
“Novelistic history,” 81–85
Nuremburg Laws, 119
Obama, Barack, 100
Objectivity, in history, 4, 92
On the Origin of Species, 15–16
Operation Desert Storm, 126
“Original intent,” 139
“Originalism,” 138–139
O’Sullivan, John, 13–14
and literary style, 74–75
Patton, Gary S., on war, 124
Pearl Harbor, 121
“Performativity,” 170n.32
“Philosophical history,” 25–26, 48, 85
Philosophy, and history, 25–48
Phrenology, 70
and greatness, 91–92
and Parallel Lives, 91
Policy studies, 110–134
and history, 110–134
Political science, and history, 60–61
Polling, and history, 99
“Pontiac’s Rebellion,” 114
Popper, Karl, 32
and philosophy of history, 32
Popular History, 77–81
Postcombat stress disorder, 124
Precedent, in law, 136
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), 147–148
“Prisoner’s dilemma,” 170n1
Providence, in history, 9, 11, 13
Psychohistory, 70
Psychology, 69–71
and history, 69–71
Puritans, 13
and history, 13
Quantification, 61
Race, and history, 5, 62–63, 96, 97, 98
Reason, and history, 36–38, 53
Re-creation, in history courses, 66
“Red Scare,” 47
Relativism, in history, 153
Religion, and history, 9–24
Reparations and Brown University, 148–149
concept of, 144
and equity, 144
for Holocaust victims, 145–147
for Japanese Americans, 145
for Native Americans, 145
as restitution, 144
for slavery, 147–150
“Representative man” theory of history, 90
Richter, Daniel, 84
Rif War, 115
“Role orientation,” 66
Roosevelt, Franklin D., and World War II, 122
Roosevelt, Theodore and Anglo-Saxon peoples, 59
and race, 59
and war, 117
Ross, Edward A., 65
and Anglo-Saxon peoples, 66
and race, 66
and reform, 65–66
Rothman, David, as expert witness, 142
“Ruling race,” 58, 59, 85, 97, 98
Saint Augustine, on war, 118
Saint Thomas Aquinas, on war, 118
Sandburg, Carl, 100
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. and popular history, 79–80
and presidential reputation, 99
on religion, 21
and A Thousand Days, 79–80
Scientific method, 49
“Scientific revolution,” 52
Sepoy War, 115
Shell shock, 124
Sherman, William T., on war, 130–131
“Silent Abe,” 108
Simmons, Ruth J., and reparations, 148
Slavery, in America, 62–63, 68, 115, 147–150, 148–150
Smith, Adam, 67
Social history, 88
Social Science, 54
and history, 49–71
and universities, 54–55
Social Science Research Council, 55
Sociology, 64–66
and history, 64–66
Socrates, on reason, 36
Soviet Union, and lessons of history, 132
Spanish Empire, 95
and lessons of history, 132
requerimiento in, 118–119
and war, 130
“State building,” in political science, 61
Sterne, Lawrence, and Tristram Shandy, 84
Stone, Irving, 81–82
and Lust for Life, 82
Story, Joseph, and slavery, 147–148
Subjectivity, in history, 92–99
Sumner, William Graham, and folkways, 65
“Synecdochal method,” 8
Tanakh, 10
Terrorism, 128
Thirteenth Amendment, 103
Thucydides, 116
and political science, 60
and war, 116
Tobacco cases, 141
Toynbee, Arnold, 20
“Tradeoff” theory of war, 128
Trait psychology, 71
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 58
and Anglo-Saxon peoples, 59
and frontier theory, 58
and race, 59
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
on history, 151
and Midwife’s Tale, 89
United Nations, 115
U.S. Army War College, 111–112
U.S., as “superpower,” 125
Vespucci, Amerigo, 94
Waldseemueller, Martin, 94
Walzer, Michael, on war, 120–121
and Europe, 115
“Holy wars” and, 120–121
“Just wars” and, 117–120, 122–123
and Roman policy, 117–118
Washington, George, 33–34
Watson, Alan, on law, 139
Wayland, Francis, 67
White, G. Edward, on law, 137
White, Hayden, on history, 6
Wills, Garry, 22
on Lincoln, 106
Winch, Peter, 34
Wolf, Eric, 56
Woodward, C. Vann, as expert witness, 141
World War I, 126
World War II, 121–125
casualties in, 122
as “good war,” 121–125
Wright, Gordon, on morality, 35