Problem
In his introduction to The Historian's Craft, Bloch tries to answer the question "what is the use of history?" In his essay "History and the Social Sciences," Braudel calls for a long view of history where ideology is less important than long-term trends. In his article, Ignatieff considers the ways that historians can evaluate traumatic events after the fact. What are some ways that these historians have responded to the rise of ideologies and traumatic events in these essays?
How did historians in Europe and the United States respond to the rise of ideologies like fascism or communism?
In the article : The Cult of the "American Consensus": Homogenizing Our History John Higham argues that, after World War II, historians began to emphasize the similarities of all Americans rather than their differences. How and why contemporary events like World War II and the Cold War affected the interpretation of American history?
How did historians of that generation interpret the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how does this interpretation compare to those of earlier generations of historians?