Alan Lessoff | Note from the Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.4

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Alan Lessoff | Note from the Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.4 | The History Cooperative

Note from the Editor

We live in a profuse age of historical biography and probably also a great one, despite all the bemoaning within and outside the historical profession about how social and cultural approaches to history have downgraded the individual. The journal is fortunate to have as its book review editor Nancy Unger, who has thought systematically and for a long time about the difficulties and opportunities that new historical concepts and methods raise for biographers of such traditional historical figures as politicians. In her introduction to Kathleen Dalton's essay on the challenges she faced in writing a fresh scholarly biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Nancy notes that taking on such a "quintessential" figure can be a "volatile" task, in large measure because many people have an emotional and even professional stake in their stereotypes—positive and negative.

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