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1. A heartbreaking problem of staggering proportions

Author

Fox, Richard Wightman

Subjects
Students -- Evaluation, Plagiarism -- Evaluation, History, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The effect of plagiarism on the students with history majors is presented. It is suggested that plagiarism can be avoided, by encouraging the students to write well-conceived and well-developed historical essays.

Published
2004

3. Bias and synthesis in history

Author

Thelen, David, Painter, Nell Irvin, Fox, Richard Wightman, Rosenzweig, Roy, and Bender, Thomas

Subjects
Historical sociology -- Analysis, African Americans -- Study and teaching, Culture -- Study and teaching, History -- Study and teaching, Historical research -- Analysis, Popular culture -- Social aspects, History, Regional focus/area studies
Published
1987

6. Public Culture and the Problem of Synthesis.

Author

Fox, Richard Wightman

Subjects
CULTURE, UNITED States history
Abstract

Suggests several improvements regarding issues of public culture and synthesis of the U.S. history in the article "Wholes and Parts: The Need for Synthesis in American History," by Thomas Bender. Definition of public culture; Ways of understanding public culture according to the book "Worlds Apart," by Jean-Christophe Agnew; Significance of the perspective of Agnew to nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; Obstacles facing historical synthesis.

Published
1987
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7. Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer

Author

Fox, Richard

Subjects
Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
Published
1989

8. A Round Table: The Living and Reliving of World War II.

Author

Fox, Richard Wightman

Subjects
*AMERICAN historians, *CONFERENCES & conventions, *ESSAYS, *WORLD War II
Abstract

Introduces a series of essays originally written for the opening night panel of the 1989 Organization of American Historians convention in Saint Louis, Missouri to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of World War II.

Published
1990

9. Book Reviews.

Author

Fox, Richard Wightman

Subjects
CONSTRUCTING American Lives: Biography & Culture in 19th-Century America (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Constructing American Lives: Biography & Culture in Nineteenth-Century America,' by Scott E. Casper.

Published
2000

10. Book reviews.

Author

Fox, Richard Wightma

Subjects
JOURNEY of Life, The (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America,' by Thomas R. Cole.

Published
1993

11. Book reviews.

Author

Fox, Richard Wightma

Subjects
ROMANTIC Longings (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980,' by Steven Seidman.

Published
1992

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