| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History. By Rebecca Conard. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. xvi, 247 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-87745-789-1.)

This book is about Benjamin Shambaugh (1871–1940), a little-known but surprisingly influential Progressive historian, who spent almost his entire professional life at the University of Iowa engaged in experiments in teaching, writing, research, and policy making. It is an unexpectedly engaging and useful examination and analysis of the ideologies, arguments, and politics surrounding the rise of history as a professional and academic discipline from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, especially as they were often rancorously expressed in disputes between the East and Midwest, state and national perspectives, and academic and professional practice.

The book has an unusual structure. The beginning and ending constitute a penetrating and accurate narrative of the development of the major ideologies of the profession, but primarily public history, from the formation of the American Historical Association (AHA) to the present. The middle is a biography of Shambaugh that includes long quotations from an unfinished biography of Shambaugh by Jacob A. Swisher, a student and later associate of Shambaugh's. The effect is to create a fascinating dialogue between Rebecca Co-nard's generally neutral account and Swisher's often enthusiastic one, which brings surprising life to the book.

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