The Importance of Localized History.

Authors :: Lord, Clifford L.
Source :: American Heritage. Summer1953, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p1-1. 2/3p.
Publication Year :: 1953
Abstract: The article comments that Americans need to study American history because the professional historian has abandoned the field of local history to the amateur. This has the uninspiring calendar of events in the . History rescues the individual from the lowly status of a census statistic to which historical synthesis on a national scale has been reduced.