John Higham
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American historian, scholar of American culture, historiography and ethnicity.
Books
Hanging together
"This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
The reconstruction of American history
Essays on how the interpretation of standard topics in American history has altered over the years.
History [by] John Higham, with Leonard Krieger and Felix Gilbert
xiii, 282 p. ; 21 cm
Civil Rights & Social Wrongs
John Higham and The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies have brought together nine original essays - plus a tenth already published essay that deserves to be more widely known. Together these essays offer the most compactly comprehensive appraisal we have of how the modern civil rights movement came about, how it changed relationships between blacks and whites, and how it led to affirmative action, to multiculturalism, and eventually to the present stalemate and discontent.