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Thomas L. Haskell

Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)

The New Aristocracy

Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present

by Elliott A. Krause

December 4, 1997 issue

Power to the Experts

The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America

by Burton J. Bledstein

October 13, 1977 issue

The True & Tragical History of ‘Time on the Cross’

Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross

by Herbert G. Gutman

"A Symposium on Time on the Cross"

edited by Gary M. Walton

Reckoning with Slavery: Critical Essays in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery

by Paul A. David and Herbert G. Gutman and Richard Sutch and Peter Temin and Gavin Wright, with an introduction by Kenneth M. Stampp

October 2, 1975 issue

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