| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians. By William Palmer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. xviii, 372 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-8131-2206-6.)

In this volume about members of the "World War II generation" of historians in the United States and Britain, William Palmer assesses the legacy of twenty-three prominent figures in the discipline who were born between the years 1910 and 1920. Among them are American historians such as John Hope Franklin, Anne Firor Scott, and Kenneth Stampp, joined by British historians such as Christopher Hill, J. H. Plumb, and Hugh Trevor-Roper. 1

The first half of the book is devoted to biographical sketches in chapters addressing their childhoods, college years, wartime occupations, and professional careers. The second half of the study divides those historians into four groups: individuals who were public intellectuals, figures who became involved in major disputes over English history, persons who emphasized archival research, and historians who were synthesizers of secondary materials. . . .

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