Understanding History A Primer Of Historical Method Pdf
Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk (February 21, 1899 in Brooklyn – June 23, 1975 in Chicago[1][2]) was an American historian, an expert on Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, where he was the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History.[3][4]
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Biography[edit]
Gottschalk was the sixth of eight children of Morris and Anna Krystal Gottschalk, Jewish immigrants to Brooklyn from Poland.[2] He graduated from Cornell University with an A.B. in 1919, A.M. in 1920, and the Ph.D. in 1921, under the supervision of Carl L. Becker.[5] He taught briefly at the University of Illinois,[2][5] and joined the University of Louisville faculty in 1923,[2][5][6][7] but resigned in protest in 1927 after a friend and colleague in the history department was fired as part of an attempt by the university administration to abolish tenure.[2] He joined the University of Chicago in 1927, was promoted to full professor in 1935, and chaired the history department from 1937 to 1942.[4] He was given his endowed chair, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professorship of History, in 1959.[4] In 1965, facing forced retirement from Chicago, he moved again to the University of Illinois at Chicago so that he could continue teaching.[4][5]
From 1929 to 1943, he served as assistant editor of the Journal of Modern History; for three years following, he was acting editor.[4]He was president of the American Historical Association in 1953[8]and the second president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.[5]
He met poet Laura Riding, then known by her maiden name, Laura Reichenthal, while she was a student at Cornell and he was a graduate assistant there. They married on November 2, 1920, and he took her last name as his middle name. However, they divorced in 1925.[2][9] He later married Fruma Kasden, in 1930; they had two sons.[2][4]
Awards and honors[edit]
Gottschalk was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1928 and 1954,[4] and a Center for Advanced study of the Behavioral Sciences fellow in 1957.In 1953 he was honored as Chevalier in the Legion of Honor and in 1954 he won a Fulbright award.[4]He received honorary doctorates from the University of Toulouse, Hebrew Union College, and the University of Louisville.[5]In 1965 his students presented him with a festschrift, Ideas in History: Essays Presented to Louis Gottschalk by his Former Students, Duke University Press.[3]
A series of lectures is named for him at the University of Louisville.[10] The annual $1000 Louis Gottschalk Prize, named in his honor, is given by the American Society for EIghteenth-Century Studies to the author of 'an outstanding historical or critical study'.[11]
Works[edit]
Gottschalk published seven volumes on the history of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette[3][5] as well as several other books on modern history and revolutions.[5]His books include:
Examples Of Historical Method
- The Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte, Haldeman-Julius Co., 1925; Kessinger Publishing, 2007, ISBN978-1-4325-8611-9
- The Era of the French Revolution (1715-1815), Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929; Surjeet Publications, 1979
- Gottschalk, Louis R. (1968) [1931]. 'The French Revolution: Conspiracy of Circumstance?'. Persecution and Liberty: Essays in Honor of George Lincoln Burr. Ayer Publishing. ISBN978-0-836-90783-4. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
- Jean Paul Marat: a study in radicalism New York: Greenberg, Publisher, Inc. 1927; Ayer Company Publishers, Incorporated, 1972, ISBN978-0-405-08566-6
- 'Studies since 1920 of French Thought in the Period of the Enlightenment,' The Journal of Modern History Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1932
- Lady-in-waiting: the romance of Lafayette and Aglaé de Hunolstein, The Johns Hopkins press, 1939
- Lafayette comes to America University of Chicago Press, 1935; Kessinger Publishing, 2008, ISBN978-1-4366-9259-5
- 'Carl Becker: Skeptic or Humanist?' The Journal of Modern History Vol. 18, No. 2, June 1946
- 'Our Vichy Fumble,' The Journal of Modern History Vol. 20, No. 1, March 1948
- Lafayette in America, 1777-1783, L'Esprit de Lafayette Society, 1975
- Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution The University of Chicago Press, 1942; UMI books on demand, 1998, ISBN978-0-608-13369-0
- Lafayette between the American and the French Revolution, 1783-1789 University of Chicago press
- Lafayette In the French Revolution, University of Chicago press, 1969
- Lafayette joins the American army, University of Chicago Press, 1974, ISBN978-0-608-13370-6
- Social Science Research Council. Committee on Historical Analysis
- Lady In Waiting The Romance of Lafayette and Aglae de Hunolstein
- Lafayette : a guide to the letters, documents, and manuscripts in the…
- The Life of Jean Paul Marat (Little blue book No. 433) Kessinger Publishing, 2006, ISBN978-1-4286-0012-6
- The Foundations of the Modern World [1300-1775], Allen & Unwin, 1969
- Toward the French Revolution: Europe & America in the Eighteenth-Century… Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973, ISBN978-0-684-13699-8
- The use of personal documents in history, anthropology, and sociology Editors Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, Clyde Kluckhohn, Robert Cooley Angell, Social Science Research Council, 1945
- Generalization in the Writing of History
- Understanding history; a primer of historical method
His papers are held at the University of Chicago.[4]
References[edit]
- ^'Louis Gottschalk, Historian, 76, French Revolution Expert, Dies', New York Times, June 25, 1975
- ^ abcdefgKleber, John E. (2001), 'Gottschalk, Louis Reichenthal', The encyclopedia of Louisville, Volume 2000, University Press of Kentucky, p. 346, ISBN978-0-8131-2100-0.
- ^ abcStewart, John Hall (1970), 'Louis Gottschalk and Lafayette', The Journal of Modern History, 42 (4): 637–648, doi:10.1086/244043, JSTOR1905833. Review of Gottschalk and Maddox, Laffayette in the French Revolution: Through the October Days, University of Chicago Press, 1969.
- ^ abcdefghi'Guide to the Louis Gottschalk Papers'. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ abcdefghCrocker, Lester G. (1976). 'Louis R. Gottschalk (1899–1975)'. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Professional Notes. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 9 (3): 474–476. JSTOR2737529.
- ^The University of Louisville, Dwayne Cox, William James Morison, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, ISBN978-0-8131-2142-0
- ^The encyclopedia of Louisville, Volume 2000, John E. Kleber
- ^Gottschalk's presidential address, AHA. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^Parini, Jay (2004), The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: William Faulkner – Mina Loy, Oxford University Press, p. 285, ISBN978-0-19-516725-2
- ^'Louis R. Gottschalk Lectures — University of Louisville'. Louisville.edu. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ACECS Awards and PrizesArchived 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, ACECS, retrieved 2010-08-06.
Definition Of Historical Method
Further reading[edit]
- 'Louis R. Gottschalk', Year Book 1975, American Philosophical Society, 1976, pp. 55–58.
A writer of history is professionally obligated to re-create the atmosphere of the era Gottschalk says. And he adds that that skill can be learned. Readers are encouraged to see history from the human viewpoint, not just as a collection of facts and dates. He talks about a good historian as one who can put himself in the place of individuals of other times.
Two terms of his profession are defined for the readers. Historical method is the process of critically examining and analyzing the records of the past. Historiography is defined as the imaginative reconstruction of the past from that data.
Whether one is interested in writing history or being a critical consumer of it this book provides insight on the process that makes both consumer and producer better.