History and Historians in America

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Excerpt from History and Historians in America: Being the Presidential Address of the Royal Historical Society, Delivered 14th February, 1929In America real Specialisation, in history as in every thing else, only begins after the ba. It is post-graduate work and it centres round the thesis, though there is also some examination work to be done before the goal is reached. A thesis of moderate originality leads to the m.a. A thesis of greater originality and extent may then be undertaken which leads to the ph.d. And to take a ph.d. Is practically compulsory for all men and women who aspire to an academic career. In most cases you cannot become a professor until you have been stamped with this hall-mark. To facilitate the attainment of this rank and to train aspirants for it in historical method, there are, in every university where post-graduate work is done, seminars of great variety and complexity. The result is an enormous output of theses, which some universities - injudiciously I think - insist on being published in the form in which they were submitted to the examiners for the degree. Naturally they vary in merit, like English theses of the same sort: but these latter have the merit of being rarely set forth in print, and when they are printed, often years later, they have not seldom grown into some thing solid and presentable. Fortunately, the increasing cost of publication is turning American authorities towards realising that it is better to issue a few good theses, than a larger number of immature ones.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.