Historical Viewpoints, Volume I, to 1877: Notable Articles from American Heritage

by John A. Garraty

The revision of this exciting collection of secondary source articles from the popular magazine American Heritage features one of the best representations of American historical thinking available. Accessible, interesting, and significant, Historical Viewpoints, Ninth Edition , introduces students to a broad spectrum of historical issues and opinions from many of the world's foremost historians.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Textbooks

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1975

About the author

John Arthur Garraty was an American historian and biographer. He specialized largely in American political and economic history.

Garraty earned an undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College in 1941 and completed his doctorate at Columbia University in 1948. During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marines as a swimming instructor. He taught at Michigan State University for 12 years before joining the Columbia University History Department in 1959. Garraty also served as the president of the Society of American Historians. He retired from teaching at Columbia in 1990.

An author of many textbooks, Garraty's works include the college and high school history textbook The American Nation, later editions of which were co-written with Mark C. Carnes. Among Garraty's other works were many biographies, and Garraty was one of the general editors of the American National Biography, a project which he completed in his retirement.

Reviews

[Davy Bennet Surf]

I read two articles in 1995.

Pg. 286. Bray Hammond
Was Andrew Jackson wise to dismantle the Bank?
..so happens i am reading the Remini book on this in 2024.

Pg. 328. Rodman W. Paul
The Mormons.

American Heritage is conservative, and probably wrong on Jackson killing the 2nd Bank of the US.
"In the 1940's Schlesinger Jr (JFK advisor) a liberal, wrote The Age of Jackson and was extremely pro-Jackson."

Hammond has dug up new info about Bank top gun Nicholas Biddle and many of the state bankers who opposed him. He is a retired governor of the Federal Reserve, so he can set the record straight for the young liberal whippersnapper Schlesinger and those lucky enough to hear the ideas of the author, pontificating in American Heritage.
Hammonds view is now the predominant one.
That, my friend does not make it correct.

If you want to extrapolate, maybe realize that the Warren Commission report was the predominant view on the JFK murder at this time.

[Chole Allyson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not much help with the class I was using the book for.