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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. Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet (1972) and The ...
Jul 19, 2011 · Of particular interest to scholars of U.S. intellectual history is Dorothy Ross’s contribution to the forum, “American Modernities, Past and Present.”. I won’t give away too many details–because all of you really need to read the essay for yourselves. In short, Ross argues that most U.S. intellectual historians have framed the nation ...
Dorothy Ross argues that recent historians have emphasized Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to slavery to the neglect of his ardent nationalism. To begin addressing this imbalance, she examines his dual allegiance to liberal universalism and to the American nation—values that circumstances of history had cast as competing moral ideals—and finds that Lincoln used the exceptionalist idea of ...
John Stuart Mill, an admirer of Auguste Comte’s “sociology,” included in his enduringly influential 1843 treatise on logic a section aiming to “remedy” the “backward state of the moral sciences” by “applying to them the methods of physical science, duly extended and generalized.”. A German translation of Mill’s work rendered ...
- Theodore Porter, Dorothy Ross
- 2003
DOROTHY ROSS IN HIS CLASSIC STUDY of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social thought in America, Morton White suggested that Progressives were the first social thinkers to take seriously the idea that society must be understood as a product of continuous historical change. This understanding of history, he noted, came late to America.
Dorothy Ross 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. Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet (1972) and The Origins of American Social Science (1991). The Society for U.S ...
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