LEADER 04212nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910810327203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-84749-3 010 $a0-226-92394-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226923949 035 $a(CKB)2670000000277029 035 $a(EBL)1076189 035 $a(OCoLC)819816767 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783450 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12363682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783450 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753306 035 $a(PQKB)11213564 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1076189 035 $a(DE-B1597)523776 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226923949 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1076189 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10628008 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL415999 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000277029 100 $a20120430d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHistory's Babel$b[electronic resource] $escholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940 /$fRobert B. Townsend 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-92393-2 311 $a0-226-92392-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBuilding the historical enterprise, 1880 to 1910. Establishing a framework for "scientific" history scholarship ; Developing the tools and materials of history research ; Defining a profession of history teaching -- Cracks appear in the edifice of history, 1911 to 1925. Seeking refuge in professionalized scholarship ; Placing the tools and materials of research in "other hands" ; History teaching finds its own voice -- Scattering the historical enterprise, 1926 to 1940. The crisis of the "research men" ; Handing tools and materials over to others ; Teaching goes its own way, 1925-1940. 330 $aFrom the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others. In History's Babel, Robert B. Townsend takes us from the beginning of this professional shift-when the work of history included not just original research, but also teaching and the gathering of historical materials-to a state of microprofessionalization that continues to define the field today. Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, Townsend traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history. By revealing how the founders of the contemporary historical enterprise envisioned the future of the discipline, he offers insight into our own historical moment and the way the discipline has adapted and changed over time. Townsend's work will be of interest not only to historians but to all who care about how the professions of history emerged, how they might go forward, and the public role they still can play. 606 $aHistoriography$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aHistory$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aHistorians$zUnited States 610 $aprofessionalization, scholarship, professionalism, professional identity, history, academia, teachers, education, pedagogy, historical societies, archivists, university historians, museum, exhibition, historiography, nonfiction, journals, standards, leadership, collaboration, technology, humanities, specialization, career. 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory. 615 0$aHistory$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aHistorians 676 $a907.2/073 700 $aTownsend$b Robert B.$f1966-$01672577 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810327203321 996 $aHistory's Babel$94036015 997 $aUNINA