Channel: The Cynical Historian

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Description: Pragmatism is not an adherence to practicality. It’s a theory of truth which says those with the best argument know the current truth, and given infinite time to investigate and discuss, whatever rational inquirers would conclude the ultimate truth. American academics followed this and really blossomed in the interwar years. These historians fused ideas about modernity with whig history to study the economic influence on ideology. Most prominently, Charles Beard, who sadly did not have a beard, applied this to the American Revolution and Civil War showing the economic basis of opposition to taxation and slavery. Carl Becker advocated for learning from the public as part of the rational inquiry of pragmatism, which he called the “everyman historian.” Historians could teach and learn, kinda like what I do on this channel. But generally academics remained split from public history, especially since they thought individuals would atomize the nation-building project of US history. This fusion of nationalism and materialism meant they believed that the US was on a trajectory for greater hegemony in the world Historiography Shorts playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXi3h9O4E0a0ZVPGYxAuUTy ------------------------------------------------------------ Charles A. Beard's "History of the US": gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7052 Carl L. Becker, “Everyman His Own Historian.” American Historical Review 37, no. 2 (29 December 1931): 221-36. historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/carl-l-becker ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory Discord: discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History