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Pinning this bc apparently I *am* going to read more and write more about Becker, lol.
That letter to Frederick Jackson Turner led me to Becker's famous "Detachment and the Writing of History," published the same year. I've read this before but probably early grad school? It's been a long time.
Holy crap, what a fascinating essay, both for its time and in our *present* time, like literally, right now.
I was able to download a pdf here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1910/10/detachment-and-the-writing-of-history/644705/
#PhilosophyOfHistory #HistoricalThinking #WhyHistory #ReadingNotes #CarlBecker