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- Himmelfarb argued "for the reintroduction of traditional values such as shame, responsibility, chastity, and self-reliance, into American political life and policy-making".
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Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that a great deal is lost when a society stops aiming for civic virtue and is content to aim merely for civility. By David...
Oct 27, 2020 · One of the 20th century’s leading historians of Victorian Britain, Gertrude Himmelfarb was also a penetrating critic of modern society and politics, who thought there was much to be learned from the virtues cultivated by the much-maligned Victorians—virtues that she argued were, in part, Jewish ones as well.
Gertrude Himmelfarb (August 8, 1922 – December 30, 2019), [1] also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Great Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture.
- August 8, 1922, New York City, New York, U.S.
- Milton Himmelfarb (brother)
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Feb 24, 1995 · February 24, 1995. “The Victorians were avowedly, unashamedly, incorrigibly moralists,” writes Gertrude Himmelfarb. England in that era, she argues, embraced virtues that imbued the whole...
May 1, 1995 · The face of today’s “underclass” is the collective result of this disaster, which is rooted in a vast moral deformation (or, literally, a moral “deconstruction”). The data cited by Himmelfarb draw attention to a very intriguing fact: that the abrupt change occurs in the 1960’s.
Microsoft Word - Paper.docx. THE ROADS TO MODERNITY: THE BRITISH, FRENCH, AND AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENTS Gertrude Himmelfarb, the author of this text, is an emeritus professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.1 She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950, writing her dissertation on the 19th ...
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Kelly Jane Torrance. |. The University of Chicago Magazine. —. Mar–Apr/12. When Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, began her graduate studies in history at Chicago, she couldn’t have imagined the career ahead of her. The 90-year-old historian, who’s been called “the reigning authority on Victorian social thought,” has written ...
