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The Making and Unmaking of a Discipline: History and Political Science in Service to the State

George Peabody Library @ Peabody Institute 17 W Mount Vernon Pl, Baltimore

When Herbert Baxter Adams founded the department of Historical and Political Sciences in 1876, he launched the “scientific” study of the past as a discipline of university research. He also connected the study of history to his political present, a link that bears deeper analysis. This talk addresses Adams’s methods and the subsequent work he […]