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Barry Alan Shain is professor of Political Science at Colgate University.
Recently departed Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn's final book, Illuminating History shines a light on the making of history and contrasts its scientific and storytelling aspects. If only Bailyn had viewed his own work as clearly...
American conservatism in the late 18th century was unlike the European species, where popular "peasant" and articulate "aristocratic" conservatism were able to develop together and to maintain a common front against the ascendant bourgeoisie.
At the last American Political Scientists Association (APSA) convention in Chicago (September 3-6, 1987), I was immediately struck, and happily so, by the unusual attention given to historical matters.
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