I wish I had been assigned Thomas Haskell’s Objectivity is Not Neutrality in graduate school. Of course the book was published in 1998, right when I began my graduate work at Loyola. New books were often assigned in our courses (though I sometimes resented that–having a strong desire to learn the classics of history first). But Haskell’s Objectivity was too new, I think, to garner the necessary attention for the instructor in our theory and methods course (who, for my iteration, was focused on gender and feminism). Besides, Haskell’s book would’ve competed against that other classic by Novick on the Read more