Review of Writing Western History: Essays on Major Western Historians

Authors

Frederick C. Luebke, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:2 (Spring 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

After a couple of decades adrift in the horse latitudes, western history and attendant historiographical debates have sailed smartly into the port of popular interest. Scholars have produced their books and articles; the popular press, sensitive to issues that touch ideas and images of national identity and culture, has given them unprecedented publicity.