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5 days ago · Dorothy Ross, pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and a professor emerita in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History, died last week. She was 87. Ross's research focused on historical writing in the social sciences, revealing insights from the history of fields including psychology, economics, political ...
Dorothy Ross (August 13, 1936 – May 2024) was an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Virginia before Johns Hopkins.
Dorothy Ross argues that recent historians have emphasized Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to slavery to the neglect of his ardent nationalism.
Jul 19, 2011 · In short, Ross argues that most U.S. intellectual historians have framed the nation’s history through the lens of modernity–at least, since the historiographical renunciation of American exceptionalism in the 1960s.
The pre-historicist idea of the United States as a special case "outside" the normal patterns and laws of history runs deep in American experience. Its origins, Dorothy Ross shows, lay in the merger of the republican and millennial traditions that formed an ideology of exceptionalism prominent in American historical writing.
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History named the Dorothy Ross Prize after Ross to honor her work in the history of psychology and modern social science. Dorothy Ross is an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.
Feb 13, 2020 · Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. xxii, 508 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-480) and indexes. Part I. European social science in antebellum America. 1. The discovery of modernity -- 2. The American exceptionalist vision -- Part II. The Crisis of American exceptionalism 1865-1896. 3.
