Phyllis Leffler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4421535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis Leffler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis |
| FAMILY NAME | Leffler |
| SIGNATURE | LEFFLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ebony and Ivy
Reviewed by: Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder Phyllis K. Leffler Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 352pp. $30.00. Craig Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy offers a comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the ways in which race-based thought and slavery are implicated in the founding, dev…
Black families and fostering of leadership
Dominant depictions of Black families in US scholarship and political discourse have been negative; tropes of defunct, hyper-masculinized men and welfare queens along with a general ‘tangle of pathology’ indictment are common. This article supports other scholarship, which challenges these depictions and acknowledges common positive traits associated with Black families. Through an examination of interviews with 39 famous Black leaders from the U…
Montpelier. Orange, Va. http
Permanent exhibition, restoration completed Sept. 17, 2008. 2,650 acres. Michael Quinn, executive director; Lynn Hastings, vice president for museum programs; Tom Chapman, research coordinator; Allison Deeds, director of curatorial operations; Sean T. O'Brien, executive director, Center for the Constitution; Matthew Reeves, director of the Archaeology Department. Montpelier, the lifelong home of President James Madison, sits on 2,650 acres of pas…
Maritime museums and transatlantic slavery
Peopling the Portholes
This research essay explores both the substance and style of exhibits at maritime museums in Britain and the United States. The museums selected reflect how social history concerns affect representations of national identities and national values on both sides of the Atlantic. Issues of social inclusion and diversity prevail, but are treated in substantially different ways in Britain and the U.S. Representations of life at sea, relocation and tra…
Public and Academic History
Journal Article Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Phyllis K. Leffler and Joseph Brent. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Get access Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Leffler Phyllis K. Brent Joseph. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Bruce Fraser Br…
French Historians and the Challenge to Louis XIV's Absolutism
The latter part of the reign of Louis XIV (ca. 1680-1715) was characterized by growing opposition to the king's policies and philosophy of governance. Historians of this period participated in this steady erosion of traditional political and social assumptions. Their role in this intellectual process has not been adequately noted. Instead of writing to support the pretentions of divine-right absolutism, as had many authors of the earlier seventee…
From Humanist to Enlightenment Historiography
During the seventeenth century historians in France developed new conceptions about history and applied new methodologies of historical writing. Not yet content to leave behind the Renaissance view that history was an art, and not yet comfortable with the Enlightenment claim that history was a science, these seventeenth-century writers created a transitional genre of historical writing. Called by contemporaries the histoire raisonnee,e it was a f…
French History Holdings in the Folger Library
Of particular interest to the historian of early modern France is the 199-volume collection of diplomatic dispatches, private letters, aidememoires, and varia translated by clerks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for use by the rich and politically powerful Strozzi family of Florence.2 The bulk of the Strozzi transcripts-some seventy volumes-consists of the letters posted from the Roman curia to the nuncios and internuncios in France, …
The "Histoire Raisonnee," 1660-1720
Maritime museums and transatlantic slavery
Black families and fostering of leadership
Dominant depictions of Black families in US scholarship and political discourse have been negative; tropes of defunct, hyper-masculinized men and welfare queens along with a general ‘tangle of pathology’ indictment are common. This article supports other scholarship, which challenges these depictions and acknowledges common positive traits associated with Black families. Through an examination of interviews with 39 famous Black leaders from the U…
From Humanist to Enlightenment Historiography
During the seventeenth century historians in France developed new conceptions about history and applied new methodologies of historical writing. Not yet content to leave behind the Renaissance view that history was an art, and not yet comfortable with the Enlightenment claim that history was a science, these seventeenth-century writers created a transitional genre of historical writing. Called by contemporaries the histoire raisonnee,e it was a f…
French History Holdings in the Folger Library
Of particular interest to the historian of early modern France is the 199-volume collection of diplomatic dispatches, private letters, aidememoires, and varia translated by clerks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for use by the rich and politically powerful Strozzi family of Florence.2 The bulk of the Strozzi transcripts-some seventy volumes-consists of the letters posted from the Roman curia to the nuncios and internuncios in France, …
The "Histoire Raisonnee," 1660-1720
From Humanist to Enlightenment Historiography
During the seventeenth century historians in France developed new conceptions about history and applied new methodologies of historical writing. Not yet content to leave behind the Renaissance view that history was an art, and not yet comfortable with the Enlightenment claim that history was a science, these seventeenth-century writers created a transitional genre of historical writing. Called by contemporaries the histoire raisonnee,e it was a f…
French Historians and the Challenge to Louis XIV's Absolutism
The latter part of the reign of Louis XIV (ca. 1680-1715) was characterized by growing opposition to the king's policies and philosophy of governance. Historians of this period participated in this steady erosion of traditional political and social assumptions. Their role in this intellectual process has not been adequately noted. Instead of writing to support the pretentions of divine-right absolutism, as had many authors of the earlier seventee…
Public and Academic History
Journal Article Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Phyllis K. Leffler and Joseph Brent. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Get access Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Leffler Phyllis K. Brent Joseph. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Bruce Fraser Br…
Peopling the Portholes
This research essay explores both the substance and style of exhibits at maritime museums in Britain and the United States. The museums selected reflect how social history concerns affect representations of national identities and national values on both sides of the Atlantic. Issues of social inclusion and diversity prevail, but are treated in substantially different ways in Britain and the U.S. Representations of life at sea, relocation and tra…
Maritime museums and transatlantic slavery
Montpelier. Orange, Va. http
Permanent exhibition, restoration completed Sept. 17, 2008. 2,650 acres. Michael Quinn, executive director; Lynn Hastings, vice president for museum programs; Tom Chapman, research coordinator; Allison Deeds, director of curatorial operations; Sean T. O'Brien, executive director, Center for the Constitution; Matthew Reeves, director of the Archaeology Department. Montpelier, the lifelong home of President James Madison, sits on 2,650 acres of pas…
Black families and fostering of leadership
Dominant depictions of Black families in US scholarship and political discourse have been negative; tropes of defunct, hyper-masculinized men and welfare queens along with a general ‘tangle of pathology’ indictment are common. This article supports other scholarship, which challenges these depictions and acknowledges common positive traits associated with Black families. Through an examination of interviews with 39 famous Black leaders from the U…
Ebony and Ivy
Reviewed by: Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder Phyllis K. Leffler Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 352pp. $30.00. Craig Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy offers a comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the ways in which race-based thought and slavery are implicated in the founding, dev…
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