American History in Transition

Yoshinari Yamaguchi, Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba, 2016), is Associate Professor of American literature at Kanazawa University. His research interest is the making of America and its literature during the early national era.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroduction: America and History1 “A Republic of Letters”: Organizing Historical Knowledge in EarlyNational America1 No Document, No History2 Collection, Preservation and Publication3 The Republic of Letters, or a Network of HistoriographicalFraternity4 Many Documents, Many Histories2 Natural History Turned National History: Unity and Uniqueness in Jeremy Belknap's Federalist Historiography1 The Third Volume of The History of New-Hampshire2 Natural History Turned National History3 Honeybees and Fiddlers: National Unity orIndividual Uniqueness4 History Writing and the Building of the Federal Republic5 Satire in History3 The Biographer's (Sub)Voice: Historical Objectivity and Interpretive Imagination in Jared Sparks's Documentary History1 Erudition or Narrative2 Document Hunter and Blocked Historian3 The Editor's Duty/Liberty4 The Biographer's (Sub)Voice5 Filiopietism, Blasphemy, or...4 American Geographic History: Visibility and Timelessness in Emma Willard's ``Progressive Maps'' and ``History in Perspective''1 Geography and History2 The Tradition of American Geographic History3 History and Geography Education in Nineteenth-Century America4 Visible and Timeless History: Emma Willard's ``Temple of Time'' and ``History in Perspective''5 The Problem of American Historicity5 The Traveling Historian: Spatiality and Panoramic Abstraction in Francis Parkman's Writings1 Travel and History2 Parkman's Research Trip for History Writing3 The Spatiality of The Conspiracy of Pontiac4 The Effects of a Traveler: Cartography, History, and Panoramic Abstraction5 Space of History6 Slow and Long History: Geology and the Idea of History in Nineteenth-Century America1 Historical Associations, the ``Retarding'' Text, and Natural-Historical Longue Durée2 Geology in Nineteenth-Century America3 The Geological Scale Enlargement and the Arguments from Analogy7 History in Depth: Geological Imagination and the Memories of the Landmass1 Geology and the Temporalization of History2 Geological Connections3 Geological Imaginations in Parkman's Historical Writings4 Geological Deep Time and the Nation-State's Time8 Toward the Impersonality of History: Inductive Reasoning and the Problem of the Individual in Henry Adams's Physicist History1 Science and Historical Studies2 The Problem of the Individual3 The Solution and Sublimation of the Individual4 Open EndingsConclusion: the Temporalization of American HistoryAppendix I: A List of Characters in Jeremy Belknap, The ForestersAppendix II: Francis Parkman's Historical Writings: an OverviewWorks CitedIndex