The Great Plains
by Walter Prescott Webb · first published 1931
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…St. Louis as from London to Paris. If you want to read about the past of the central part of the US, can I suggest a brilliant writer who isn't mentioned in the article: Walter Prescott Webb. See The Great Plains or The Frontier.
on “On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality” ↗…with all the melancholy and resignation appropriate to the subject. Two early twentieth century books I've read that probably fit the mold of "great historian" intended by this author are Webb's The Great Plains and Young's Victorian England: Portrait of an Age. I think what the author means by "old great histories"---as distinct from the many old "scientific" histories that are now merely wrong---is that the…
on “Some Rules for Historians (1973)” ↗