...His wide-ranging achievements, including numerous biographies such as Grover Cleveland (1932), which won the Pulitzer Prize, his multifaceted research on the Civil War period such as The Federal Ordeal (1947), and his extensive research on Rockefeller and Henry Ford, are unmatched. He placed emphasis on the narrative nature of historical writing, and in 1954 he founded the popular history magazine American Heritage. He also founded the oral history movement, which involved interviewing individuals and listening to their recollections to use as historical material, making a major contribution to the popularization of history. [Shimura Kosuke]... *Some of the terminology used in reference to "American Heritage" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ピュリッツァー賞を得た《グローバー・クリーブランド》(1932)をはじめ多数の伝記,《連邦の試練》(1947)ほかの多角的な南北戦争期研究,ロックフェラーとヘンリー・フォードの膨大な研究など,多方面にわたる業績は他の追随を許さない。歴史記述の物語性を重視し,1954年大衆向けの歴史雑誌《アメリカの遺産American Heritage》を創刊,また,個人にインタビューして回想を聞き取り史料とするオーラル・ヒストリー運動を創始するなど,歴史学の大衆化に寄与した功績も大きい。【志邨 晃佑】。… ※「《アメリカの遺産》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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