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Daniel Geary

Roundtable on Averbeck’s *Liberalism Is Not Enough* – Final Entry: The Author Responds

To see the forest for the trees: “To discern an overall pattern from a mass of detail; to see the big picture, or the broader, more general situation.” [1] ——— I’d like to start by thanking S-USIH, and especially Tim Lacy, who did the grunt work, for putting together this roundtable. It’s been delightful to receive a wide range of responses and build new connections with scholars interested in similar work. As Raz and Lassabe Sheperd pointed out in their reviews, I wrote this book with a larger body of scholarship in mind. Mical Raz’s own work, in fact, closely Read more

Analysis or Synthesis?

During his tenure leading the American Historical Association, William Cronon has been using his “From the President” column, which appears monthly in Perspectives on History, to explore the various ways Read more