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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
Dorothy Ross, “Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism,” Journal of American History, 96 (Sept. 2009), 379–399. Abraham Lincoln at 200, Journal of American History, 96 (September 2009). © Copyright Organization of American Historians .
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.
Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity.
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Johns Hopkins University. 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.
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. In this liberal world
Nov 30, 1990 · In “The Origins of American Social Science”, Dorothy Ross argues, “American social science owes its distinctive character to its involvement with the national ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and economic opportunity.
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