Peter Stearns | Part V: Opportunities for the Future | Journal of Social History, 39.3

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Peter Stearns | Part V: Opportunities for the Future | Journal of Social History, 39.3 | The History Cooperative

PART V: OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE

By Peter Stearns George Mason University

Social history has matured as a field. It has lost some of the zeal of youth. It has been shaped by a series of new topical interests and theoretical approaches, some clearly beneficial, some verging on the faddish. It needs now to reassert some older claims, while avoiding mere reaction, while realizing the contributions of more recent approaches, and while continuing to innovate outright. It needs to recognize the dispersion of social historians in a variety of interdisciplinary programs and projects, both inside and outside the academy, while insisting on some core concerns and shared conversations.

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