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Dorothy Ross (born 1936) is 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.
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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.
DOROTHY ROSS In the historical narratives that nations write for themselves, location on the map of modernity is a crucial component of identity. In the United States as in other areas of the world, the construction of a national self-conception was bound up with the Eurocentric character of modernity. The United States began its existence in the
Professor Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to change in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them.
From Romance to Uncertainty. DOROTHY ROSS. WILLIAM M. SLOANE, soon to be Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, began the first number of the American Historical Review by noting the existence of "widespread discontent with the results of historical study as pursued to-day." If that situation seems familiar, Sloane's response to ...
